Painted Rock (Tulare County, California)

{{Short description|Archaeological and sacred site in California, US}}

{{use mdy dates|date=August 2022}}

{{Infobox Protected area

| name = CA-TUL-19

| photo = Painted_Rock_Tulare_County.jpg

| photo_caption = Hoffman's 1882 sketch of the rock art seen at the site.

| location = Tule River Reservation, Tulare County, California, United States

| nearest_city = Porterville, California

| coords = {{coord|36|1|53|N|118|42|54|W|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}

| governing_body = Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation

}}

Painted Rock is an archaeological and sacred site of the Yokuts of the Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation in Tulare County, California.{{cite gnis|1667605|Painted Rock Campground}}Strain 2012 p. 1 Painted Rock contains petroglyphs visited and described by Walter James Hoffman in 1882{{cite book |title=Tenth Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888–'89 |editor-first=J. W. |editor-last=Powell |date=1893 |publisher=G.P.O. |location=Washington, DC |pages=52–57, 637–639 |url=https://archive.org/details/annualreportofbu1018881889smit}} and by Clinton Hart Merriam in 1903.{{cite book |first=C. Hart |last=Merriam |editor-first=Robert F. |editor-last=Heizer |title=Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes: Ethnological Notes on Central California Indian Tribes |url=https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucas068-003.pdf#page=163 |series=Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey |volume=68, part III |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |date=December 1967 |pages=412–413 }} One image on the panel has been interpreted by cryptozoologists as "an entire Bigfoot family".Strain 2012 p. 2