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Show 36 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. occasionally south of the mountains, but reported as extremely rare in the immediate northern regions. ( For x, see page 232.) Mr. Coronel stated that when he first settled in Los Angeles, in 1843, the Indians living north of the San Fernando mountains manufactured blankets of the fur and hair of animals, showing transverse bauds of black and white similar to those depicted, which were sold to the inhabitants of the valley of Los Angeles and to Indians who transported them to other tribes. It is probable that the pictograph is intended to represent the salient • features of a trading expedition from the north. The ceiling of the cavity found between the drawings represented in Plate I and Plate II has disappeared, owing to disintegration, thus leaving a blank about 4 feet long, and 6 feet from the top to the bottom of the original record between the parts represented in the two plates. Dr. W. J. Hoffman also reports the following additional localities in Santa Barbara and Los. Angeles counties. Fifteen miles west of Santa Barbara, on tbe northern summit of the Santa Ynez range, and near the San Marcos Pass, is a group of paintings in red and black. One figure resembles a portion of a checker- board in the arrangement of squares. Serpentine and zigzag lines occur, as also curved liues with serrations on the concave sides; figures of the sun, groups of short vertical lines, and tree forms, resembling representations of the dragon- fly, and the human form, as drawn by the Moki Indians, and very similar to Fig. e, PI. II. These paintings are iu a cavity near the base of an immense bowlder, over twenty feet in height. A short distance from this is a flat granitic bowlder, containing twenty- one mortar holes, which had evidently been used by visiting Indiaus during the acorn season. Trees of this genus are very abundant, and their fruit formed one of the sources of subsistence. Three miles west- northwest of this locality, in the valley near the base of the mountain, are indistinct figures in faded red, painted upon a large rock. The characters appear similar, in general, to those above mentioned. Forty- three miles west of Santa Barbara, in the Najowe Valley, is a promontory, at the base of which is a large shallow cavern, the opening being smaller than the interior, upon the roof and back of which are numerous figures of similar forms as those observed at San Marcos Pass. Several characters appear to have been drawn at a later date than others, such as horned cattle, etc. The black color used was a manganese compound, while the red pigments consist of ferruginous clays, abundant at numerous localities in the mountain canons. Some of the human figures are drawn with the hands and arms in the attitude of making the gestures for surprise or astonishment, and negation. One of the most extensive records, and probably also the most elaborately drawn, is situated in the Garisa Plain, near Senor Oiena's ranch, sixty or seventy miles due north of Santa Barbara. The most conspicu- |