Hunting the Mountain Picassos, a short film made by Teri Brewer for the Nevada Arts Council and the Nevada Historical Society was featured on “Strata: Portraits of Humanity,” a program sponsored by the Archaeological Legacy Institute.
The film explores the lifelong passion of Jean and Phillip Earl, collectors of arborglyphs: a tree carving tradition associated with Basque shepherds who kept summer sheep camps in the high country aspen groves of the Great Basin. The Earls invented a unique method of documenting the glyphs using muslin and the special soft crayons more commonly associated with brass rubbings in English churches. Another film, Capturing Arborglyphs. made as part of the same project documents the technique of making the rubbings.
Capturing Arborglyphs:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/video-guide/strata-portraits-of-humanity