The Cherokee’s Tsul kălū′, and the Judaculla Rock...
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Scott Ashcraft Archaeologist Pisgah National Forest N.C. Rock Art Project [email protected] 828-231-7564 The Cherokee’s Tsul kălū′, and the Judaculla Rock Petroglyphs of Western North Carolina Lorie Hansen N.C. Rock Art Project Project Director [email protected] 828-697-6187
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Scott AshcraftArchaeologistPisgah National ForestN.C. Rock Art [email protected]
The Cherokee’s Tsul kălū′, and the Judaculla Rock Petroglyphs of Western North Carolina
Lorie HansenN.C. Rock Art ProjectProject [email protected]
North Carolina Historic Sites Marker
JUDACULLA ROCK- COMPOSITE NIGHT-TIME PHOTOGRAPHLoubser, 2008
Judaculla Mythscape
Cherokee Medicine Man Swimmer, 1888
Judaculla = Anglicized version of Tsul kălū′
Ethnologist James Mooney and hisHistory, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees
Tsul kălū′ means “He has them slanting”Referring to the eyes.
Frightful Cherokee mask with slanted eyes
Judaculla Mythscape – Landscape & Legend
40 Miles
Judaculla Rock
Old Fields Bald & Judaculla Ridge
Pilot MtnTanasee Bald
Devils Courthouse
Looking Glass Rock
Cullowhee
Shining Rock Petroglyphs
Judaculla Mountain
Kanuga Town
Petroglyphs
Tanasee Bald(Tsul Kalu Tsunegun’yi )
Judaculla Old Fields
aka
Judaculla Rock
Devils Courthouse
Judaculla’s Judgment Seat
aka
Judaculla Rock
Old Bald Ridge &Judaculla Ridge
Also- Judaculla Old Fields
Judaculla Rock
Devils Courthouse
Judaculla Rock
Devils Courthouse
JUDACULLA ROCK- COMPOSITE NIGHT-TIME PHOTOGRAPH
Judaculla’s Hand Print
Judaculla’s Ritual Line
Loubser, 2008
Cherokee Creation Story
Pilot Mountain
Kana’ti& Selu
View to Pilot Mtn from Devils Courthouse
Judaculla Rock
Judaculla Rock
Where Judaculla saw his own reflection
Looking Glass Rock
“Where the tracks are this way”(Tsulâ′sinûn′yĭ )
Shining Rock
“Where the footprint is”(Datsunalagun’yi)
Kanuga
means- Judaculla’s Place
Cullowhee
Judaculla Rock
Judaculla Mountain
Judaculla Rock
Judaculla Mythscape – Landscape & Legend
40 Miles
Judaculla Rock
Old Fields Bald & Judaculla Ridge
Pilot MtnTanasee Bald
Devils Courthouse
Looking Glass Rock
Cullowhee
Shining Rock Petroglyphs
Judaculla Mountain
Kanuga Town
Petroglyphs
Gardner Rock –Yancey County, NC
Mooney Photograph (circa 1889) of Gardner Rock and his notes and sketches of North Georgia petroglyphs
Map- The Cherokee Country by James Mooney, 1900.
Showing Judaculla Rock along with major landscape features
Circa 1930s postcard of a whitewashed Judaculla Rock with landowner Milas Parker in the background
Deteriorating conditions at Judaculla Rock
Circa 1920s picture of a whitewashed Judaculla Rock – Dashed line indicates 2008surface level.
Judaculla Rock - 2008
Jannie Loubser, Douglas Frinkand coauthor Lorie Hansen remove sediment from the face of Judaculla Rock, 2007.
REDUCED RE-DRAWING OF THE JUDACULLA ROCKTRACING. Loubser, 2008
Judaculla’s World on the Landscape and Possibly on the Rock. Loubser 2008
Modern rendition of the Cherokee Warrior Dance.
Cherokee ball players performed necessary rituals prior to the game. (Mooney, 1888)
Native American Boarding Schools …to forcibly acculturate Indians into mainstream white society.
…a break with many traditions, including the Judaculla rituals
Eastern Band Cherokee Elders Visit Tsul' Kalu'
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