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Show 4 2 PICT0GKAPH8 OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. figures are just such simple combinations of lines which would occur independently to the rook- engravers and to the body- painters as to all other untaught designers. Fi. i. 2.- Deep carvings in Guiana. The same author ( pp. 368, 369) gives the following account of the superstitious reverence entertained for the petroglyphs by the living Indians of Guiana: Every time a sculptured rock or striking mountain or stone is seen, Indians avert the ill- will of the spirits of such places by rubbing red peppers ( Capsicum) each in his or her own eyes. For instance, on reaching the Timehii rock on the Corentyn River, I at once began to sketch the figures sculptured thereon. Looking np the next moment I saw the Indians- men, women and children- who accompanied me all grouped round the rock- picture, busily engaged in this painful operation of pepper- rubbing. The extreme pain of this operation when performed thoronghly by the Indians I can faintly realize from my own feelings when I have occasionally rubbed my eyes with fingers which had recently handled red- peppers ; and from the fact that, though |