Io6 DAVENPORT ACADE.MV OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



entirely destroyed. Plate I, A, forms the left-hand portion of the 

 record, and Plate I, B, the right, the missing portion having occu- 

 pied the middle third of the whole group of paintings. The colors 

 employed were red ochre, white, and bluish-black. At the time of 

 my visit I was struck by the marked resemblance to some of the 

 characters found in Arizona, which are known to have been made 

 by the Moki Indians, but no information could be gained as to the 

 import of the record until I subsequently found at Los Angeles 

 what I consider a hint which may lead to a partial interpretation. 



I was informed by the Hon. A. F. Coronel that when he arrived 

 at Los Angeles in 1843 ^^^ frequently saw Lidians come into town 

 from the north, bringing coarse blankets for sale, which were made 

 of the hair of animals, and colored black and white in alternate, 

 broad, transverse bands. I also found, in Mr. Coronel's collection, 

 small figures of Mexican manufacture representing native costumes 

 and trades, one of which was in imitation of a man lying upon an 

 outspread blanket, which was similar in coloration and arrangement 

 of stripes to the figure shown in Plate III, A, 2, and B, i, 2. In the 

 same collection, also, are a number of large colored plates of Mex- 

 ican costumes of former times, and in several of these are scrapes, 

 having colors and borders almost identical with those presented in 

 Plate III, A, 2, and B, i, 2. 



The figure in Plate III, B, i, is evidently a personage of some im. 

 portance, shown by the lines drawn from the head,* as this method 

 of denoting superiority, condition, or intelligence is almost an 

 universal one. These figures are drawn over or in front of the 

 blanket, as if the latter were intended as a body blanket or serajK'. 

 The circles with borders, Plate IV, B, 8, 9, 10, in this connection, 

 seem to indicate bales of blankets, the intersecting lines upon both ' 

 colored and plain circles possibly denoting cords, as wrai)ped about 

 goods of this kind. This belief is further strengthened from the 

 fact that in Plate III, B, 6 we see the drawing of a man, with head 

 ornaments and breech-cloth plainly visible, leading a horse up hill, 

 upon whose back is apparently a similarly tied bundle, at the right 

 hand of which the ends of the cords are seen projecting. It 



* In Plate III, B, 2 is a similar figure mounted upon legs, as if some one were 

 carrying it upon his back, the long arm terminating in a hand directed in an up- 

 vfard direction, possibly so placed to indicate the direction to be taken by the 

 bearer, i. e., upward toward the near summit; as in the same group, Figs. 4 and 

 20, the arms of the human form are likewise jiointed upward. 



