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p. 42, PL 30) the discovery of pictographs at Pai- Cite Creek, about 30 

 miles west of the Mojave villages. These are carved upon a rock, " arc 

 numerous, appear old, and are too confusedly obscure to be easily trace- 

 able." 



These bear great general resemblance to etchings scattered over 

 Northeast Arizona, Southern Utah, and Western New Mexico. 



Remarkable pictographs have also been found at Tuie River Agency. 

 See Figure 155, page 235. 



COLORED PICTOGRAPHS ON ROCKS. 



Mr. Gilbert Thompson reports the occurrence of painted characters 

 at Paint Lick Mountain, 3 miles north of Maiden Spring, Tazewell 

 County, Virginia. These characters are painted in red, blue, and yel- 

 low. A brief description of this record is given in a work by Mr. 

 Charles B. Coale, entitled "The Life and Adventures of Wilburn 

 Waters," etc., Richmond, 1878, p. 130. 



Mr. John Haywood (The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennes- 

 see, Nashville, 1823, p. 140) mentions painted figures of the sun, moon, a 

 man, birds, etc., on the bluffs on the south bank of the Holston, 5 miles 

 above the mouth of the French Broad. These are painted in red colors 

 on a limestone bluff. He states that they were attributed to the Cher- 

 okee Indians, who made this a resting place when journeying through 

 the region. This author furthermore remarks : " Wherever on the rivers 

 of Tennessee are perpendicular bluffs on the sides, and especially if 

 caves be near, are often found mounds near them, enclosed in intrench- 

 ments, with the sun and moon painted on the rocks," etc. 



Among the many colored etchings and paintings on rock discov- 

 ered by the Pacific Railroad Expedition in 1853-'54 (Rep. Pac. R. R. 

 Bxped., Ill, 1850, Pt. Ill, pp. 30, 37, PH. 28, 2!), 30) may be mentioned 

 those at Rocky Dell Creek, New Mexico, which were found between the 

 edge of the Llano Estacado and the Canadian River. The stream flows 

 through a gorge, upon one side of which a shelving sandstone rock 

 forms a sort of cave. The roof is covered with paintings, some evi 

 dently ancient, and beneath are innumerable carvings of footprints, ani- 

 mals, and symmetrical lines. 



Mr. James H. Blodgett, of the U. S. Geological Survey, calls atten- 

 tion to the paintings on the rocks of the bluffs of the Mississippi River, 

 a short distance below the mouth of the Illinois River, in Illinois, which 

 were observed bj T early French explorers, and have been the subject of 

 discussion by much more recent observers. 



Mr. P. W. Norris found numerous painted totemic characters upon 

 the cliffs in the immediate vicinity of the pipestoue quarry, Minnesota. 

 These consisted, probably, of the totems or names of Indians who had 

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