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duced iu Figure 149. This appears to be purely Algonkian, and has more 

 resemblance to Ojibwa characters thau any other petroglyph yet noted 

 from the Eastern United States. 



The best type of Western Algonkian petroglyphs known to the writer 

 is reported as discovered by members of the party of Capt. William A. 

 Jones, United States Army, in 1873, and published in his report on 

 Northwestern Wyoming, including the Yellowstone National Park, 

 Washington, 1875, p. 207, et seq., Fig. 50, reproduced in this paper by 



FlG. 150.— Aljionkiaii petroglyph. Wyoming. 



Figure 150, in which the greater number of the characters are shown 

 about one-fifth of their size. 

 An abstract of his description is as follows: 



* * Upon a nearly vertical wall of the yellow sandstones just, back of Murphy's 

 ranch, a number of rude figures had been chiseled, apparently at a period not very re- 

 cent, as they had become much worn. * ' * * No certain cine to the connected mean- 

 ing of this record was obtained, although Piuatsi attempted to explain it when the 

 sketch was shown to him some days later by Mr. F. W. Bond, who copied the inscrip- 

 tions from the rocks. The figure on the left, in the upper row, somewhat resembles 

 the design commonly used to represent a shield, with the greater part of the orna- 

 mental fringe omitted, perhaps worn away in the Inscription. We shall possibly be 

 justified in regarding the whole as an attempt to record the particulars of a fight or 

 battle which once occurred in this neighborhood. 1'inatsi's remarks conveyed the 

 idea to Mr. Bond that he understood the figure [the second in the upper liuej to sig- 

 nify cavalry, and the six figures L three iu the middle of the upper line, as also the three 

 to the left of the lower line,] to mean infantry, but he did not appear to recognize the 

 hieroglyphs as the copy of any record with which he was familiar. 



Several years ago Dr. W. J. Hoffman showed these (as well as other 

 pictographs from the same locality) to several prominent Shoshoni In- 

 dians from near that locality, who at once pronounced them the work 

 of the Pawkees (Satsika, or Blackfeet), who formerly occupied that 

 country. The general resemblance of many of the drawings from this 

 area of country is similar to many of the Eastern Algonkin records. 

 The Satsika are part of the great Algonkian stock. 



Throughout the Wind River country of Wyoming many pictographic 

 records have been found, and others reported by the Shoshoni Indians. 

 These are said, by the latter, to be the work of the " Pawkees," as they 

 call the Blackfeet, or more properly Satsika, and the general style of 



