22 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN8. 



tbor also quotes Mr. "\N i 1 1 i ; » 1 1 1 A. Adams as describing, in a letter to 

 Professor Silliman in 1842, some figures on the surface of a sandstone 

 Kick, lying en the bank of the Muskingum River. These figures are 

 mentioned as being engraved in the rock and consist of tracks of the 



turkey, and of man. 



ROOK CARVINGS IN WEST VIRGINIA. 



Mr. P. W. Norris, of the Bureau of Ethnology, reports that he found 

 numerous localities along the Kanawha River. West Virginia, bearing 

 pictographs. Hock etchings arc numerous upon smooth rocks, covered 



during high water, at the prominent fords of the river, as well as in the 

 niches or long shallow caves high in the rocky cliffs of this region. 

 Although rude representations of men, animals, and some deemed 

 symbolic characters were found, none were observed superior to, or 

 essentially differing from, those of modern Indians. 



Mr. John Haywood mentions (The Natural and Aboriginal History 

 of Tennessee, Nashville, 1823, pp. 332, 333) rock etchings four miles be- 

 low the Burning Spring, near the mouth of Campbell's Creek, Kanawha 

 County. West Virginia, These consist of forms of various animals, as 

 the deer, buffalo, fox, hare; of tish of various kinds; '-infants scalped 

 and scalps alone," and men of natural size. The rock is said to be in 

 the Kanawha River, near its northern shore, accessible only at low 

 water, and then only by boat. 



On the rocky walls of Little Coal River, near the mouth of Big Horse 

 Creek, are cliffs upon which are many carvings. One of these meas- 

 ures 8 feet in length and 5 feet in height, and consists of a dense mass 

 of characters. 



About 2 miles above Mount Pleasant, Mason County. West Virginia, 

 on the north side of the Kanawha River, are numbers of characters. 

 apparently totemic. These are at the foot of the hills Hanking the 

 river. 



On the cliffs near the mouth of the Kanawha River, opposite Mount 

 Carbon, Nicholas County. West Virginia, are numerous pictographs. 

 These appear to be cut into the sandstone rock. 



Si e also page 22.3, Figure 148. 



ROCK CARVINGS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



Charles C. Jones, jr., in his Antiquities of the Southern Indians, etc., 

 New Vork, 1873, pp. 62, 63, gives some general remarks upon the pic- 

 tographs of the southern Indians, as follows : 



In painting ami rock writing tin- efforts "f tin- Southern Indians were confi i t<> 



the fanciful ami profuse ornamentation of their own persons « itli various colors, in 



