OBJECTS REPRESENTED IX PICTOGRAPII8. 



The objects depicted in pictographs of all kinds arc too numerous and 

 varied for any immediate attempt at classification. Those upon the 

 petroglyphs may, however, be usefully grouped. Instructive particu- 

 lars regarding them may be discovered, for instance the delineation of 

 the fauna in reference to its present or former habitat in the region 

 where the representation of it is found, is of special interest. 



As an example of the number and kind of animals pictured, as well as 

 of their mode of representation, the following Figures, 4 to 21, are pre- 

 sented, taken from the Mold inscriptions at Oakley Springs, Arizona, 

 by Mr. G. K. Gilbert. These were selected by him from a large number 

 of etchings, for the purpose of obtaining the explanation, and they wen- 

 explained to him by Tubi, an Oraibi chief living at Oraibi, one of the 

 Moki villages. 



Jones, in his Southern Indians, p. 377-379, gives a resume of objects 

 depicted as follows : 



Upon the Enchanted Mountain in Union County, cut in plutonic rock, are the tracks 

 of men, women, children, deer, bears, bisons, turkeys and terrapins, and the outlines 

 of a snake, of two deer, and of a human hand. These sculptures — so far as they have 

 been ascertained and counted — number one hundred and thirty-six. The most ex- 

 travagant among them is that known as the footprint of the " Great Warrior." It 

 measures eighteen inches in length, and has six toes. The other human tracks and 

 those of the animals are delineated with commendable fidelity. 



Most of them present the appearance of the natural tread of the animal in plastic 

 clay. * These intaglios closely resemble those described by Mr. Ward [Jour. 



Anthrop. Inst, of N. Y., No. 1, 57 et sej.], as existing upon the upheaved strata of coarse 

 carboniferous grit in Belmont County, Ohio, near the town of Barnesville. 



The appearance of objects showing the influence of European civil- 

 ization and christianization should always be carefully noted. An in- 

 stance where an object of that character is found anions a multitude of 

 others not liable to such suspicion is in the heart surmounted by a cross, 

 in the upper line of Figure l,page 30 ante. This suggests missionary 

 teaching. 



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