Case file · Sacred site
Mazinaw Rock and the memegwesiwag
Over 260 red ochre pictographs line Mazinaw Rock in Bon Echo Park, Ontario, the largest group in the Canadian Shield; Selwyn Dewdney and Kenneth Kidd published them in 1962.
1962 CE · 44.83, -77.20 · status: legend
The account
Anishinaabe tradition links such cliffs with the memegwesiwag, small hairy-faced beings who live in rock crevices along water and can bless or trouble those passing by canoe. Nanabozho figures among the paintings.