BEAR GULCH PICTOGRAPHS

Located in central Montana in the foothills of the Little Snowy Mountains is the Bear Gulch Pictographs site. Bear Gulch, named for the nearby creek, is the largest known collection of Plains Indian rock art.  Approximately 4,000-5,000 pictographs and petroglyphs exist at this one site. Pictographs are rock art using a paint medium and petroglyphs are etchings. Some archeologists believe this area was used to record sights after a vision quest from 1000 AD -1850 AD.

UM Geography Department