Vandals have etched a racist phrase , “ white magnate ” , as well as other graffiti , over millennia - old Native American petroglyphs in Utah .
The Bureau of Land Management Utah has announced a $ 10,000 reward for data leading to the check and conviction of those responsible .
stone prowess sites on federal lands are across the country protected areas and it is powerfully prohibited to relate the nontextual matter as even oil from fingertips can irreparably damage the frail rock ‘n’ roll Earth’s surface .
The four - panel collection of petroglyph known as the “ Birthing Rock ” in Moab , Utah was etched into the reddened sandstone boulder ’s four sides by Indigenous inhabitants sometime between 700 and 2,500 years ago . The depictions continue the periods and finish from the Anasazi ( 1 to 1275 BCE ) , Fremont ( 450 to 1250 BCE ) , and the Ute ( 1200 to 1880 BCE ) .
It ’s think the petroglyphs on the rock describe a woman give birthing as well as anthropomorphic figures , beast such as bighorn sheep , bears , Snake River , and centipedes , and geometric patterns .
On Monday , April 26 , a tour guide noticed the pictorial scribbles across one side of the boulder ’s artwork , reportsFox 13 . Someone had attempted to spell “ white major power ” , misspell the word “ white ” and so crossed it out and drop a line it again .
Other uninspired graffito include an ejaculating penis , the words “ eat Eastern Samoa ” and other Christian Bible to line women ’s genitalia . Only one panel stay undamaged .
This is the quaternary routine of hooliganism on autochthonal culturally authoritative writings in month , trace the vandalism of 1,000 - yr - old Creek and Cherokee stone carvings atTrack Rock Gapin north Georgia in former April and the defacement of pictographs west of Bend in Oregon in December .
In March , a Colorado rock-and-roll climber damage another set of Moab petroglyphs when hedrilled deadbolt into the rock faceof Sunshine Wall to map out a unexampled climbing itinerary , dismissing the petroglyphs as " graffiti " , harmonize to theSmithsonian magazine .
