# Shafer 2022: Sacred Landscape in the Lower Pecos

> Harry J. Shafer, 2022. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The shift from the shamanic to the narrative reading.

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# Sacred Landscape in the Lower Pecos

Harry J. Shafer, 2022. _Tracks, Witte Museum Members Magazine, Fall 2022_.

The Witte's curator of archaeology on the Lower Pecos as a painted sacred landscape: the 1931 Witte recording, Turpin's attribution of the figures to shamans and trance with hallucinogens such as peyote, and Boyd's reading of White Shaman as one composition depicting the sun's birth and the dawn of time.

**White Shaman MuralTertiary source** ArticleChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The shift from the shamanic to the narrative reading.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[Boyd's own view joins the two readings](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRJGN3KY3/boyds-own-view-joins-the-two-readings)

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[The long-standing reading of Pecos River figures as shamans](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRHZ4AVQB/the-long-standing-reading-of-pecos-river-figures-as-shamans)

Evidence

EVD

[Harry J. Shafer](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/people/FIG0DCKM1CSHEVF/harry-j-shafer)

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[Solveig A. Turpin](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/people/FIG0DCKM0Y723G9/solveig-a-turpin)

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[The White Shaman Mural](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural)

The mystery article

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[What does the White Shaman mural depict?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/questions/QST0DCKPKDCPP15/what-does-the-white-shaman-mural-depict)

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## Cite it

```
Shafer, H. J. (2022). Sacred Landscape in the Lower Pecos. Tracks, Witte Museum Members Magazine, Fall 2022. https://www.wittemuseum.org/tracks-fall-2022-sacred-landscape-in-the-lower-pecos/
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[Read it free at wittemuseum.org](https://www.wittemuseum.org/tracks-fall-2022-sacred-landscape-in-the-lower-pecos/)

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