REMARKS ON ABORIGINAL ART. I09 



how far similar specific types extend, thus gaining a knowledge of 

 the former geographic distribution of certain tribes, if not of cer- 

 tain linguistic families represented by tribes, which are not known, 

 either historically or traditionally, to have lived there. 



The second series visited is located in the Azuza canon, about 

 thirty miles northeast of Los Angeles. After following up the 

 rocky and tortuous caiion of the Azuza, or San Gabriel, river for a 

 ■distance often miles, a side canon turns off toward the left, which, 

 if followed for about half a mile, will bring us to a white granitic 

 boulder in the bottom of the valley, upon the eastern side of which 

 are the faint yellow outlines of the characters represented in Plate 

 V, A. The left arm of figure 3 is directed toward the northeast, 

 but on account of the precipitous walls of the canon, egress in that 

 direction is impossible. Two hundred yards farther on, however, 

 the canon makes a sharp turn toward the northeast, and in rounding 

 the point of land to the right, another boulder, measuring about 

 twenty feet in length and six or eight feet high, is visible im- 

 mediately below the trail. Upon this are numerous faint drawings 

 of various kinds, the most important of which are shown in Plate 

 V, B, C. This rock is on the line of an old trail leading 

 from the country of the Chemehuevi, on the north of the moun- 

 tains, down to the valley settlements of San Gabriel and Los An- 

 geles. Any attempt to follow the canon would have been an 

 extremely rough journey, as well as a considerable increase in dis- 

 tance. The illustrations in Plate V, B, 4, 5, 6, are taken from 

 the northwest side of the rock, so that the extended arms of the 

 human figures are directed toward the passes, above and below, 

 through which the trail could be followed. Fig. 5 appears to point 

 up stream with his right arm, and also shows elevation with the 

 leg of the same side, while with the other arm, the gestures shown 

 seem to indicate a downward direction, possibly to denote the 

 lower country of the San Gabriel Valley. Fig. 4, in pointing to 

 the top of a serrated figure, may possibly have some reference to 

 the rocky or hilly nature of the course to be pursued. Fig. 6, and 

 from 7-10, are shown in this connection on account of their gen- 

 eral resemblance to those drawn by the Moki. As the Chemehuevi 

 Indians formerly visited the new settlements, it is more than prob- 

 able that they were the authors of the drawings, which were placed 

 there as a guide or notification of direction to traveling parties. 

 Furthermore, the Chemehuevi Indians are one of the tribes corn- 



