no DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



posing the Shoshonian linguistic family, which may be another 

 reason for the similarity of many of the characters to others found 

 in regions occupied by nearly all the remaining tribes of that 

 fomily. In B, Fig. 5, 6, and C, 8, 9, 10, the hands and feet are 

 identical with Moki drawings, extending even to the projection or 

 caudal extremity, signifying a ma/e among the latter. The pe- 

 culiarity of three-toed and three-fingered feet and hands survives 

 on the Santa Barbara rock paintings shown in Plate III, B, 3, 5, 7, 

 Plate IV, I, 2, and Plate III, 2, 5, and occurs also in other parts of 

 the world. The peculiarly-drawn human figures in Plate V, 7, of 

 the Azuza series also greatly resembles that at Santa Barbara, in 

 Plate IV, 3, the arms in the latter seeming to point both directions 

 of the practicable trail, while the legs are extended oljliquely /// 

 /ill/ and down Jiill, which exactly corresponds to the topography of 

 the region encountered in going, respectively, north and south. 



The third series to which I desire to call attention is that found 

 in the northern portion of Owens Valley, California, between the 

 White Mountains on the east and the Benton Range on the west. 

 The country was traversed by me in 1871 while in command of a 

 side party of the United States Geographical Survey, under the 

 command of Lieut, (now Captain) Wheeler, U. S. A. I saw one 

 group of this series, but being pressed for time, was unable to obtain 

 sketches or to make satisfactory examination of the characters. 

 These are all pecked into the smooth surfaces of rocks of vesicular 

 basalt to the depth of from a quarter of an inch in some specimens 

 to nearly an inch in others. During the past season, however, I 

 went over the region anew, and find what appears to be a series of 

 landmarks to indicate a course to be followed at stated times by 

 Indians in coming up the valley and across the Benton Range to a 

 locality where grass-seed and pinon nuts abound in great quantities. 

 The terminus of the route seems to be at a point four miles south- 

 west from the town of Benton, on the western side of the range. 

 Here are a number of petroglyphs pecked into the rocks around 

 the upper point of a small. ;//,?xc?, at the southern base of which are 

 several low, flat boulders, bearing a number of mortar holes for 

 grinding seed. A little farther to the west is a fine spring and a 

 large area of marsh land, on which is an abundance of tall, seed- 

 bearing grass. Immediately to the east of the rock-etchings, and 

 on the slope of the mesa, are five or six stone circles, each measur- 

 ing about eight feet in diameter, which mark the sites of former 



