REMARKS ON ABORIGINAL ART. I07 



is probable that the gaudily colored blankets, if they be such, ex- 

 cited the admiration of the native artist and prompted him to re- 

 produce them, as goods with which he may have been familiar or 

 which were not specially attractive, would be drawn only in simple 

 outline, as in Plate III, B, 5. 6, 19, 21. When we take into con- 

 sideration the union of the figure of the human being, in Plate III, 

 A, 2, and the circle. A, i, it may seem as if the idea was to indi- 

 cate the owner or seller of the goods ; in other words, the trader. 

 Fig. 16 in Plate III, B, represents a centipede. 



The Indians still living in the vicinity of Santa Barbara disclaim 

 all knowledge of the authorship of these paintings. As before 

 stated, many of the characters are similar to, and some identical 

 with, those made by the Moki and other tribes of the Shoshonian 

 linguistic stock. There is no historic evidence of any tribe of that 

 stock having occupied this immediate vicinity or that north of the 

 mountains. The nearest are the Kauvuya, usually divided into the 

 Serranos or vwiiniaiti men, and the Playsanos or lowlanders, who 

 occupied the country south of the San Fernando range, along the 

 coast to a short distance above San Diego, thence eastward across 

 the State to the Colorado river. The tribe now living north of 

 Santa Barbara county is the Tejon, or, as they term themselves, the 

 Tin'liu. This tribe is of the Yokut family and entirely distinct from 

 the preceding. 



The tribe who came to trade, and to steal, is said to have come 

 from the north, and according to the characters shown in the pic- 

 tures the expeditions were made since the establishment of the 

 Mission in 1786, and possibly in the early part of the present cen- 

 tury. To reach the immediate vicinity of Santa Barbara from the 

 north only four trails are known, and to three of these I have found 

 rocks with painted figures of various kinds, some of which are 

 almost exact reproductions. The two beside the locality above 

 mentioned are a short distance from the foot-hills four miles north- 

 east of Santa Barbara, where the trail should be taken to make the 

 ascent. One of these is an isolated boulder, on the west side of 

 which are human figures, drawn in the attitude of indicating self 

 and direction, the extended arm pointing toward another large, 

 isolated boulder on a direct line to the mountain trail. See Plate 

 IV, B, 2. 



Fifteen miles west of Santa Barbara, near the San Marcos Pass, 

 and on the northern summit of the range, are a group of paintings 



