REMARKS ON ABORIGINAL ART. II3 



Near the site of the former camping ground, referred to as be- 

 ing four miles southwest of Benton, are quite a number of charac- 

 ters similar to that shown in Plate V, G, i, being of a horse-shoe 

 form, with a vertical line within. Sometimes there are several ver- 

 tical lines running parallel to one another, sometimes only one 

 which is attached at the top, and a kw examples occur here, but 

 others more plentifully in the other groups of this series, in which 

 the ends of the " horse-slioe " are brought together so as to form a 

 ring. 



In Plate \, H, I, are presented a number of variations of the 

 human form, from a simple vertical line, intersected above its mid- 

 dle by a transverse one, to the more complete character, showing 

 the legs and feet, with the arms and hands in the position of mak- 

 ing a common gesture for negation.'^ The figure bearing curved 

 lines from the shoulders, upward and inward, slightly resembles one 

 from the painted records at Tule River Agency, Cal., on the west- 

 ■ern slope of the Sierra Nevada, and distant about one hundred and 

 fifty miles. t PL V, I, 5. 



It may be well to call attention to the absence of any representa- 

 tions of the human face, apart from the body, in the California 

 petroglyphs. In the painted records it is generally attached to the 

 body, excepting when it is intended to represent the sun, and where 

 there is always more or less external ornamentation to convey the idea 

 of rays of light or heat. In several foreign localities the human face 



several from southern Peru, while a few are strikingly similar. The occurrence 

 at both localities, of deer having peculiarly drawn horns, consisting of a long 

 vertical line with horizontal cross-lines, seems to partake rather of a religious or 

 mystic nature, the presence, also of well-defined serpents of peculiar attitude; 

 the circles, to which short vertical lines are attached, and other characters of 

 curious design which are apparently not unintentional, all lend peculiar interest 

 to a more thorough study and comparison of pictographic records occurring on 

 the Pacific coast of America from Oregon to Patagonia. For further information 

 regarding the Peruvian records above mentioned, see Jour. Ethnol. Soc. of London, 

 New Series, Vol. II, p. 271, I'll, xxii, x.\iii. 



* A human figure, almost identical with some of these, though having the fore- 

 arms pointing upward instead of outward, occurs on a clay vessel of primitive 

 Scandinavian manufacture, and is reproduced in " Influence classique sur le Nord 

 pendant I'Antiquite, par C. Engelhardt. Traduit par E. Beauvois, Copenhagen, 

 1876, p. 251, Fig. 59. [Reprinted from Mem. Soc. Royale des Antiq. du Nord.] 



f Trans. Anthrop. Soc. Washington, II, 1SS3, p. 130, Fig. i. 



