This is a Puebloan drawing. To me, it looks like a rodent—a desert rat of some kind.

Did the Puebloans draw this rat because they wanted to touch it, and couldn’t?

I suppose they could have built a trap and caught one. But that wouldn't be the same as meeting the animal on its own terms and exploring its shape on impulse.

A captive animal can never be explored. A captive animal is an object, not a frontier.