Help me find an image of a Native-American themed monkey symbol

September 4, 2007 1:52 PM

Help me find a picture of a Kokopelli-esq monkey

I'm looking for a picture of a monkey drawn in the style of Kokopelli, and I can't think of the right keywords to plug into google image. I've seen this monkey drawing before:
as a part of a collection of shiny rocks engraved with "Native American" symbols
on a jar of pineapple (?) salsa
as a stencil for a temporary tattoo at an amusement park

posted by fermezporte to media & arts (8 comments total)

Did you check google images or were you looking for one drawing in particular?
posted by iconomy at 2:00 PM on September 4, 2007

Ooops - that's what I get for talking on the phone while reading. You want a monkey!
posted by iconomy at 2:02 PM on September 4, 2007

Something like this?
posted by MrMoonPie at 2:12 PM on September 4, 2007

MrMoonPie - that's a pretty cool monkey, but it's not the one I'm thinking of. It doesn't look exactly like kokopelli, but it's often grouped with him, along with lizards and other animals all drawn with the same Native American/possibly quasi-Native American style.
posted by fermezporte at 3:33 PM on September 4, 2007

Here are some photos of pictographs and petroglyphs. At the bottom of the page there are some stylized things images, some of which might look like a monkey. Or perhaps the image you saw was in the Mimbres style? No monkeys there, but "Native American style" is pretty broad, it might help people figure out what you are looking for if you can narrow it down a bit.
posted by yohko at 5:22 PM on September 4, 2007

Are you talking about the gigantic glyph of a monkey on the plains near Nazca?
posted by zachxman at 7:30 PM on September 4, 2007

monkey from Nazca Lines, with big spiral tail?
posted by LobsterMitten at 7:33 PM on September 4, 2007

Try here?
posted by acorncup at 12:30 AM on September 5, 2007