PETROGLYPHS— STEWARD 423 



horned toads or frogs, lizards, and occasional sheep and deer, most of 

 which are drawn in a peculiar stiff and rectilinear style. Some- 

 times pictures are ornamentally painted on the wall plaster of house 

 interiors. 



An extremely interesting figure found in various parts of the 

 Southwest and probably dating from an early prehistoric Pueblo 

 period is a hunchbacked and very phallic individual (fig. 1, c?), who 

 plays a flute, usually lying on his back. It is interesting to note that 

 one of the principal American Indian uses of the flute is in love 

 making. 



In view of the great amount of archeological research carried on 

 in the Southwest our knowledge of petroglyphs is disappointingly 

 meager. There are many petroglyphs which seem to be neither 



Figure 7. — Carved petroglyphs of dancing figures, near Tucson, Ariz. Note that the artist 

 became careless when maliing the figures on the left. 



Basket Maker nor Pueblo, but their source remains a mystery. It 

 is certain, however, that some drawings have been made down to 

 the present day. The modern Pueblo Indians occasionally place 

 symbols on the rocks, the Navajo and Apache sketch horses, men, and 

 other simple and purposeless figures, and white men continue to put 

 names and initials everywhere, often defacing older and irreplace- 

 able native glyphs. 



Southern California has many rocks bearing the complex and 

 probably ancient geometric designs that characterize the Great Basin. 

 The red zigzags and diamond chains (pi. 2, A), previously mentioned 

 as the products of girls' puberty rites, are limited in distribution 

 and are rapidly being obliterated by weather. 



The regions of Santa Barbara and Tulare Counties, Calif., have a 

 number of extremely interesting painted petroglyphs which have 

 weathered so greatly during the past 25 years that their antiquity 

 cannot be very great (pi. 2, B and C). These are usually very in- 

 tricate geometric designs including "wheels", "targets", and other 

 figures outlined by a solid or dotted line of a different color. There 

 are also a few realistic or imaginary creatures, including many-legged 

 insects, distorted and often spraddle-legged human beings, and 

 quadrupeds in various awkward positions. 



