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IIAVELERS across Flathead lake by boat usually have their '^' 

 atteiilinii called to the "Pictured Rocks," on Angel Point, on ^O 

 the west side. EsiJecially is this true when the boat puts into 

 hay to the west, around or hack of Wild Horse Island, for Day- 

 ton. On the way out as the boat rounds the point and steams 

 out into the open lake the passage is close to the cliff on the 

 shore, and the hieroglyphics are plainly seen by the passengers with the 

 naked eye. 



The cliff on wliieh the writings occur is not in the Flathead Indian Res- 

 ervation but about two and a half miles northeast of the place where the 

 north reservation line cuts the west shore of the lake, in township 25 north, 

 range 20 west, section 22. They may be easily approached from either 

 side along the shore, the shelf or shore being narrowest at the cliff where 

 the writings occur. Here there is barely rcjoni to walk along the shelf at the 

 foot of the rocks, and one could step from the narrow shelf into the lake at 

 high water. A few rods to the north is the house of a settler, but the coun- 

 try about is wild and unbroken. 



The pictured rocks make up a cliff lising almost vertically from the 

 clear waters of the lake. Along the face of the cliff, about waist high from 

 the shelf on which one stands on leaving the boat, and as high as a man can 

 , reach, is the splendid series of Indian writings. It is the purpose of this paper 

 to give briefly such information about these writings as is at present avail- 

 able, together with photographs taken by the writer. 



Flathead Lake is in the nniih western part of Montana, and receives the 

 drainage from almost the entire northwestern section of the state. It extends 

 north and south, with a length of about thirty miles. At its widest portion 

 east and west, it is almost twenty miles across. Its eastern shore is flanked 

 by the Mission mountains, which come down quite abruptly to the water's 

 edge. On the western shore the mountains are not so abrupt, leaving small 

 tracts of tillable land between the lake and the steep mountain faces, although 

 the mountains really begin at the water as on the eastern shore. The upper 

 end is a broad and fertile valley, the old lake bed. At the lower end there 

 is a morainal hill some 450 feet high, separating the lake shore from the 

 beautiful Mission valley. More detailed information is given in the Bulletins 

 University of Montana, "A Biological Reconnois.sance in the Vicinity of Flat- 

 head Lake," with many plates, and "Lectures at Flathead Lake," i)ages 197-203, 

 with illustrations, both by the writer. 



Several spurs from the Cabinet mountains drop down to the waters of the 

 (^ lake on the west. One of these is Angel Hill, ending at Angel Point on the 

 ^ lake. As before stated, the cliff of this hill, where it ends at the lake, con- 

 Oi tains the Indian writings. By referring to Fig. 1 the exact location of the.se 

 ^^ rocks may be determined. 



^- The map is inaccurate in one respect. Between the "Pictured Rocks" and 



^ Willi Horse Island, a short distance from shore, and not much farther from 



Wild Horse, are two small islands. These are unnamed, and for convenience 



