IMPERISHABLE PAINT
AN INDIAN SECRET. The secret of making Imperishable paint belonged to the old Sheepeater Indian tribe, declare Utah authorities on Indian research who recently returned from a trip to the tribe’s former haunts in the middle fork of the Salmon River in Idaho. Anyone travelling up this canyon will notice a number of Indian writings and drawings on overhanging cliffs along the trail. What form of paint the Indians used is not known, but it cannot be washed off the rock, because the paint has penetrated the rock to a depth of from one-sixteenth to one-eighth of an inch. At the big end of the middle fork are a number of depressions Bft to 10ft across and rimmed with rock. These circles are believed to be where the Sheepeaters pitched their tepees.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1938, Page 9
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134IMPERISHABLE PAINT Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1938, Page 9
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