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Show 2 6 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. arrow pointing upward, with two horizontal lines drawn across the shaft, vertical lines having short oblique lines attached thereto. Mr. Gatschet, furthermore, remarks that the TuAlati attach a trivial story to the origin of these pictures, the substance of which is as follows : The Tillamuk warriors living on the Pacific coast were often at variance with the several Kalapuya tribes. One day, passing through Fatten's Valley to invade the country of the Tu& lati, they inquired of a passing woman how far they were from their camp. The woman, desirous not to betray her own countrymen, said that they were yet at a distance of one ( or two f) days' travel. This'made them reflect over the intended invasion, and holding a council they preferred to retire. In commemoration of this the inscription with its numeration marks, was incised by the Tu& lati. Capt. Charles Bendire, U. S. Army, states in a letter that Col. Henry C Merriam, U. S Army, discovered pictographs on a perpendicular cliff of granite at the lower end of Lake Chelan, lat. 48° N., uear old Fort O'Kinakane, on the upper Columbia River. The etchings appear to have been made at widely different periods, and are evidently quite old. Those which appeared the earliest were from twenty- five to thirty feet above the present water level. Those appearing more recent are about ten feet above water level. The figures are in black and red colors, representing Indians with bows and arrows, elk, deer, bear, beaver, and fish. There are four or five rows of these figures, and quite a number in each row. The present native inhabitants know nothing whatever regarding the history of these paintings. For another example of pictographs from Washington see Figure 109, p. 190. ROCK CARVINGS IN UTAH. A locality in the southern interior of Utah has been called Picto-graph Rocks, on account of the numerous records of that character found there. Mr. G. K. Gilbert, of the ^ United States Geological Survey, in 1875 collected a number of copies of inscriptions in Temple Creek Canon, Southeastern Utah, accompanied by the following notes : " The drawings were found only on the northeast wall of the canon, where it cuts the Vermillion cliff sandstone. The chief part are etched, apparently by pounding with a sharp point. The outline of a figure is usually more deeply cut than the body. Other marks are produced by rubbing or scraping, and still other by laying on colors. Some, not all, of the colors are accompanied by a rubbed appearance, as though the material had been a dry chalk. " I could discover no tools at the foot of the wall, only fragments of pottery, flints, and a metate. |