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ous figure is that of the sun, resembling a face, with ornamental appen- 

 dages at the cardinal points, and bearing striking resemblance to some 

 Mold marks and pictographic work. Serpentine lines and numerous 

 anomalous forms also abound. 



Four miles northeast of Santa Barbara, near the residence of Mr. 

 Stevens, is an isolated sandstone bowlder measuring about twenty feet 

 high and thirty feet in diameter, upon the western side of which is a 

 slight cavity bearing figures corresponding in general form to others in 

 this county. The gesture for negation again appears in the attitude of 

 the human figures. 



Half a mile farther east, on Dr. Coe's farm, is another smaller bowlder, 

 in a cavity of which some portions of human figures are shown. Parts 

 of the drawings have disappeared through disintegration of the rock, 

 which is called "Pulpit Rock," on account of the shape of the cavity, 

 its position at the side of the narrow valley, and the echo observed 

 upon speaking a little above the ordinary tone of voice. 



Painted rocks also occur in the Azuza (Jafion, about thirty miles north- 

 east of Los Angeles, of which illustrations are given in Plate LXXX, 

 described on p. 156. 



Dr. Hoffman also found other paintings in the valley of the South 

 Fork of the Tule Eiver, in addition to those discovered in 1882, and given 

 in Figure 155, p. 235. The forms are those of large iusects, and ef the 

 bear, beaver, centipede, bald eagle, etc. 



Upon the eastern slope of an isolated peak between Porterville and 

 Visalia, several miles east of the stage road, are pictographs in red and 

 black. These are chiefly drawings of the deer, bear, and other animals 

 and forms not yet determined. 



Just previous to his departure from the Santa Barbara region, Dr. 

 noffman was informed of the existence of eight or nine painted records 

 iu that neighborhood, which up to that time had been observed only by 

 a few sheep-herders and hunters. 



Other important localities showing colored etchiugs, and other painted 

 figures, are at San Diego, California ; at Oneida, Idaho ; in Temple 

 Creek Canon, southeastern Utah, and in the Canon de Chelly, north 

 western New Mexico. 



