114 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



is found to the exclusion of almost everything else. This is par- 

 ticularly the case on the Amazon river in Brazil* and in the Cura- 

 Malal Mountains, Buenos Aires. f 



Of the various outlines of the human form presented by Wallace 

 from Brazil, and referred to more recently by Prof. Richard Andree,|" 

 we find quite a number to be almost identical with etchings from 

 the Owen's Valley series. Such frequent coincidences are of pecu- 

 liar interest, from the fact that they furnish additional evidence of 

 the independent origin and development of art in widely separated 

 localities and among distinct tribes or peoples. 



Reference has already been made to the fact that many of the 

 characters found in the series of petroglyphs from Los Angeles, 

 Santa Barbara, and Owen's Valley, have numerous similarities to 

 etchings and paintings made by tribes of the Shoshonian linguistic 

 family. The resemblances are greatest between the series near Los 

 Angeles and that in the vicinity of Santa Barbara. That there is 

 sufficient resemblance between the drawings of the several tribes of 

 the Shoshonian family so that a record can, in nearly every instance,, 

 be indirectly identified as to authorship, holds true not only with 

 this family, but also with others, notably that of the Algonkian, 

 representative tribes of which are scattered over the country from 

 the St. Lawrence river to Wyoming Territory. Rock etchings 

 made by the Blackfeet Indians § have more similarity to those found 

 at Cunningham Island, Lake Erie,|| and at Dighton Rock, Mass.,^ 

 than some of the characters on birch-bark made by the Ojibwa,. 



* A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro. A. R. Wallace. 

 London, 1853, p. 524. 



f I>a Sierra de Cura-Malal (Currumalan) Informe prescntado al Excelentisimo 

 Seiior Gobernador de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Dr. Dardo Rocha. For el 

 Dr. Eduardo Ladislas Holmberg. Buenos Aires, 1884, 8vo., pp. 46-55, Plate 

 VI, Figs. 1-7 ; Plate VII, Figs. 1-6. 



+ Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche. Stuttgart, 1878, Plate 3, Fig. 15. 



^ Jones' Report upon tlie Reconnoisancc of Northwestern Wyoming, including 

 Yellowstone Park. Washington, 1875, l*"'?- 5° on p. 268. 



II Schoolcraft, II, 88, Plate 41 ; also in Parallelen und Vergleiche, Andree,^ 

 Plate V, Fig. 49. 



][ Compare illustrations in Schoolcraft: Antiqvitates Americana;, Rafn, and 

 illustrations in the forthcoming Third Annual Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



