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Show MALLKBT.] COLORED ROCK- PICTURES. 37 ous figure is that of the sun, resembling a face, with ornamental appendages at the cardinal points, and bearing striking resemblance to some Moki marks and pictographic work. Serpentine lines and numerous anomalous forms also abound. Four miles northeast of Santa Barbara, near the residence of Mr. Stevens, is an isolated sandstone bowlder measuring about twenty feet high and thirty feet iu diameter, upon the western side of which is a slight cavity bearing figures corresponding in general form to others irf this county. The gesture for negation again appears in the attitude of the human figures. Half a mile farther east, on Dr. Coe's farm, is another smaller bowlder, in a cavity of which some portions of human figures are shown. Parts of the drawings have disappeared through disintegration of the rock, which is called " Pulpit Rock," on account of the shape of the cavity, its position at the side of the narrow valley, and the echo observed upon speaking a little above the ordinary tone of voice. Painted rocks also occur in the Azuza Canon, about thirty miles northeast of Los Angeles, of which illustrations are given in Plate LXXX, described on p. 156. Dr. Hoffman also found other paintings in the valley of the South Fork of the Tule River, in addition to those discovered in 1882, and given in Figure 155, p. 235. The forms are those of large insects, and of the bear, beaver, centipede, bald eagle, etc. Upon the eastern slope of an isolated peak between Porterville and Visalia, several miles east of the stage road, are pictographs in red and black. These are chiefly drawings of the deer, bear, and other animals and forms not yet determined. Just previous to his departure from the Santa Barbara region, Dr. Hoffman was informed of the existence of eight or nine painted records in that neighborhood, which up to that time had been observed only by a few sheep- herders and hunters. Other important localities showing colored etchings, and other painted figures, are at San Diego, California; at Oneida, Idaho; in Temple Creek Canon, southeastern Utah, and in the Canon de Chelly, northwestern New Mexico. |
