Award Rock Symbology

A couple of Gatherers asked about the symbols used in the Native American rock art I received as prize for Birdie Jaworski's contest a while back.

I dug into the internet and found enough concensus on the meanings to publish them here.

First, according to the inscription on the back, this is Navajo/ Dine art.  There are two symbols used on the rock:

A man (or woman) dancing with what looks like a flute, and a hand.

According to the Native American Indian Designs and Symbol Symbol Guide, the dancing flute player is the ubiquitous Kokapelli.  According to the site:

"Kokopelli. Probably the most popular & well known Indian symbol. Known as the seed bringer and water sprinkler. A common fertility symbol throughout the Southwest. His image is found many times in petrography art. He is a personage who is honored as a kachina by most Pueblo cultures. He is associated with fertility, the male principal, biology, and the significance of guarding seeds. Usually depicted as old, bent under his heavy load with his flute. He travels to many communities, impregnating young women who are mesmerised from the notes played on his flute. Related to the cricket or locust whose natural music is associated with the state of humidity and seasonal weather. Many bawdy stories of his various exploits have been told. As a kachina doll, he is made with a staff, not a flute and is carved as a hunchbacked. His likeness also featured exaggerated male sexual organs until the missionaries came in the 1930's, who frowned on this practice. Today he is considered the ambassador of the Southwest."

The hand symbol is, according to the same website:

"The Hand. Representing the presence of man. His work, his acheivements & his history."

I'm hoping that any Native Americans on Gather might add some better context or meaning to this.