A Petroglyph Robe from Atherton Canyon, Montana

Abstract

Atherton Canyon, an extensive rock art site located in central Montana, contains the first documented rock art image of a decorated hide robe. Showing a typical Box and Border motif, the robe dates from the Protohistoric period, prior to A.D. 1720. It cannot be definitely determined what animal’s hide was used for the robe, but its proportions suggest an animal smaller than a bison. The Atherton Canyon robe provides direct evidence of northern Plains Box and Border decorated robes at least a century before the earliest surviving ethnographic specimen and is a unique addition to the Plains rock art record.

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