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of the wool industry in Nevada, at site #Cl-5, Lost City, southern Nevada,
discovered by Professor Julian Steward in 1929, on the east bank of the Muddy
River. Here a spun woolen thread
loops about a bighorn sheep and then coils to form the ogam letters that
spell "wool." The letters
UI-L-Ñ = Gaelic olann, Old Irish oland, Old Welsh gulan, = "wool."
The site has numerous petroglyphs depicting sheep and shepherds and
other aspects of the wood trade. On
the right is the hieroglyph cas, a
foot, that is always found associated with inscriptions relating to spinning
wool, because cas is also the verb
"to spin"
in Gaelic. [Also see Petroglyph
list] |
