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which are unintelligible. These consist of zigzag lines, heavy curved 

 lines serrated on the concave side, figures of the sun, short vertical 

 strokes, etc., as shown in Plate IV, A. 



There are temporary streams near by, and springs of water at 

 greater distance, and from the fact that upon a low, flat boulder of 

 granite there are twenty-three mortar holes, it is probable that the 

 people who made these paintings also made the mortars for grind- 

 ing grass and other seeds, making special visits to this place for the 

 latter purpose at a certain season of each year. 



Three miles west northwest of the last-named locality, down in 

 the valley, are indistinct traces of figures painted in red ochre; and 

 six miles farther west, near the ruins of the Mission of San Marcos, 

 is a boulder in the river bottom, upon which apparently similar de- 

 signs are perceptible, though too much worn to permit copying. 



Forty-three miles west of Santa Barbara, in the Najowe Valley, 

 is another rocky promontory, at the base of which are a number of 

 paintings of various grotesque forms of the human body. There 

 are several characters which indicate that the record was painted 

 within historic times, as the figure of an ox appears on the left mar- 

 gin of the principal paintings and at a short distance from them. 

 The human figures, in several instances, appear to be drawn in the 

 attitude of making gestures, similar to that for stirprise or astonish- 

 ment '\\\ Plate IV, A, 2 and 5, and negation in A, 4. Many of the 

 characters, though distinct at certain portions, are much worn in 

 other parts, owing to disintegration of the surface upon which they 

 were depicted. 



I was deprived the opportunity of visiting an important locality 

 in the Cuyama Valley, on account of the severe and protracted 

 rains, which set in early in the season. This is to be regretted, as 

 the drawings there represented differ considerably from those before 

 mentioned, but closely resemble parts of the interesting series of 

 paintings at Tule Indian Agency, about one hundred and eighty 

 miles to the northeast, which were visited in 1882 and again in 

 1884. 'i- The general type, of what may be termed the Shoshonian, 

 prevails in all of these records to greater or less degree, and it 

 would be of the utmost interest and importance to make thorough 

 examinations of all of the records known throughout these mountain 

 regions, from Santa Barbara northward, to ascertain, if possible, 



* See Trans. Anthrop. Society of Washington, II, 1S83, p. 128, etseq.. Fig. i. 



