MALLFKY.J PETROGLYPHS IN THE INTERIOR BASIN*. 25 



Waving lines, rings, and what appear to be vegetable forms are of 

 frequent occurrence. The human form and footprints are also depicted. 

 Among the copies of pictographs obtained iu various portions of the 

 Northwestern States and Territories, by Mr. G. K.Gilbert, is one referred 

 as to as being on a block of basalt at lieveille, Nevada, and is mentioned 

 as being Shiuumo or Mold. This suggestion is evidently based upon the 

 general resemblance to drawings found iu Arizona, and known to have 

 been made by the Moki Indians. The locality is within the territory of 

 the Shoshonian linguistic division, and the etchings are in all prob- 

 ability the work of one or more of the numerous tribes comprised within 

 that division. 



ROCK CARVINGS IN OREGON AND IN WASHINGTON. 



Numerous bowlders and rock escarpments at and near the Dalles of 

 the Columbia River, Oregon, are covered with incised or pecked picto- 

 graphs. Human figures occur, though characters of other forms pre- 

 dominate. 



Mr. Albert S. (latschet reports the discovery of rock etchings near 

 Gaston, Oregon, in 1878, which are said to be near the ancient settlement 

 of the Tualati (or Atfalati) Indians, according' to thestatement of these 

 people. These etchings are about 100 feet above the valley bottom, 

 and occur ou six rocks of soft sandstone, projecting from the grassy 

 hillside of Patten's Valley, opposite Darling Smith's farm, and are 

 surrounded with timber ou two sides. The distance from Gaston is 

 about 4 miles; from the old Tualati settlement probably not more than 

 2i miles in an air-line. 



This sandstone ledge extends for one-eighth of a mile horizontally 

 along the hillside, upon the projecting portions of which the inscriptions 

 are found. These rocks differ greatly in size, and slant forward so that 

 the inscribed portions are exposed to the frequent rains of that region. 

 The first rock, or that one nearest the mouth of the canon, consists of 

 horizontal zigzag lines, and a detached straight line, also horizontal- 

 On another side of the same rock is a series of oblique parallel lines. 

 Some of the most striking characters found upon other exposed portions 

 of the rock appear to be human figures, i. *., circles to which radiating 

 lines are attached, and bearing indications of eyes and mouth, long ver- 

 tical lines running downward as if to represent the body, and terminat- 

 ing in a bifurcation, as if intended for legs, toes, etc. To the right of 

 one figure is an arm and three-fingered hand (similar to some of the 

 Moki characters), bent downward from the elbow, the humerus ex- 

 tending at a right angle from the body. Horizontal rows of short ver- 

 tical lines are placed below and between some of the figures, probably 

 numerical marks of some kind. 



Other characters occur of various forms, the most striking being an 



