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Show 2 8 PICT00BAPH8 OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. cafioo, or valley, and upon rolcanic rock*. They bear the marks of age and are cut in, not painted, as is still done by the Utes erery where. They are found for a qnarter of a mile along the north wall of the cation, on the ranches of W. M. Magnire and F. T. Hudson, and consist of all manner of pictnres, symbols, and hieroglyphics done by artists who*! memory even tradition does not now preserve. The fact that these are carvings, done upon such hard rock merits tbem with additional interest, as they are quite distinct from the carvings I saw in New Mexico and Arizona on soft sand- stone. Though some of them are evidently of much greater antiquity than others, yet all are ancient, the Utes admitting them to have been old when their fathers conquered the country. ROCK CARVING8 IN NEW MEXICO. On the north wall of Canon de Cbelly, one fourth of a mile cast of the month of the cation, are several gronps of pictograpbs, consisting chiefly of various grotesque forms of the human figure, and also numbers of animals, circles, etc. A few of them are painted black, the greater portion consisting of rather shallow lines which are in some places considerably weathered. Further up the canon, in the vicinity of cliff- dwellings, are numerous small groups of pictographic characters, consisting of men and animals, waving or zigzag lines, and other odd and " unintelligible" figures. Lieut. J. H. Simpson gives several illustrations of pictograpbs copied from rocks in the northwest part of New Mexico in his Report of an Expedition into the Navajo Country. ( Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 64,31st Cong., 1st sess., 1856, PI. 23, 24, 25.) Inscriptions have been mentioned as occurring at £ 1 Moro, consisting of etchings of human figures and other unintelligible characters. This locality is better known as Inscription Hock. Lieutenant Simpson's remarks upon it, with illustiations, are given in the work last cited, on page 120. He states that most of the characters are no higher than a man's head, and that some of them are undoubtedly of Indian origin. At Arch Spring, near Zuni, figures are cut upon a rock which Lieutenant Whipple thinks present some faint similarity to those at Rocky Dell Creek. ( Rep. Pac. R. R. Exped., Vol. Ill, 1856, Pt. Ill, p. 39, PL 32.) Near Ojo Pescado,. in the vicinity of the ruins, are pictograpbs, reported in the last mentioned volume and page, Plate 31, which are very much weather- worn, and have " no trace of a modern hand about them." ROCK- CARVINGS IN ARIZONA. On a table land near the Gila Bend is a mound of granite bowlders, blackened by augite, and covered with unknown characters, the work of human hands. On the ground near by were also traces of some of |
