Southcentral Alaska, at the northern arc of the Gulf of Alaska, has a rich Native rock art which consists of red or reddish pictographs showing animals, anthropomorphic figures, boats, and various abstract and geometric motifs. These stylistically varied paintings can be seen at a dozen sites, in Cook Inlet, Kachemak Bay and Prince William Sound, in rock shelters and on open-air rock surfaces. Although these pictograph sites are generally located away from the known Native settlements, most of them have revealed archaeological materials (especially, in middens).
