24 PICTOGRAPHS OF Till. NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



ROCK CARVINGS IN WYOMING AND IN IDAHO. 



A number of pictographs in Wyoming are described in tin' report on 

 Northwestern Wyoming, including Yellowstone National Park, by Gapt. 

 William A. Jones, U. S. A., Washington, 1875, p. 268 <( seq., Figures 



r>0 to .">.". in that work. The last three in order of these figures arc re- 

 produced in Sign Language among North American Indians, in the 

 First Annual Report, Bureau of Ethnology, pages 378 and 379, to show 

 their connection with gesture signs. The most important one was dis- 

 covered on Little Popo-Agie, Northwestern Wyoming, by members of 

 Captain Jones's party in 1S73. The etchings are upon a nearly vertical 

 wall of the yellow sandstone in the rear of Murphy's ranch, and appear 

 to be of some antiquity. 



Further remarks, with specimens of the figures, are presented in 

 this paper as Figure 150, on page 227. 



Dr. William H. Corbusier, U. S. Army, in a letter to the writer, 

 mentions the discovery of rock etchings on a sandstone rock near the 

 headwaters of Sage Creek, in the vicinity of Fort Washakie, Wyoming. 

 Dr. Corbusier remarks that neither the Shoshoni nor the Arapaho In- 

 dians know who made the etchings. The two chief figures appear to lie 

 those of the human form, with the hands and arms partly uplifted, the 

 whole being surrounded above and on either side by an irregular line. 



The method of grouping, together with various accompanying appen- 

 dages, as irregular lines, spirals, etc., observed in Dr. Corbusier's draw- 

 ing, show great similarity to the Algonkin type, and resemble some 

 etchings found near the Wind River Mountains, which were the work 

 of Blackfeet (Satsika) Indians, who, in comparatively recent times, occu- 

 pied portions of the country in question, and probably also etched the 

 designs near Fort Washakie 



A number of examples from Idaho appear infra, pages 228 and 220. 



ROCK CARVINGS IN NEVADA. 



At the lower extremity of Pyramid Lake, Nevada, pictographs have 

 been found by members of the United States Geological Survey, though 

 no accurate reproductions are available. These characters are men- 

 tioned as incised upon the surface of basalt rocks. 



On the western slope of Lone Butte, in the Carson Desert, Nevada, 

 pictographs occur in considerable numbers. All of these appear to 

 have been produced, on the faces of bowlders and rocks, by pecking 

 and scratching with some hard mineral material like quartz. No 

 copies have been obtained as yet. 



Great numbers of incised characters of various kinds are found on 

 the walls of rock flanking Walker River, near Walker Lake, Nevada. 



