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have led other people in other regions to produce like inscriptions.’ 
Some of the examples, such as the so-called “ flute-players” (p. 194), 
are found many miles apart, yet represent identical personages; 
others are apparently meaningless combinations of lines. At all 
events, the pictographs may be expected to have a definite classifica- 
tional value which will become evident when they have been collected 
from other parts of the Southwest. We reproduce, accordingly, all 
the examples recorded by us. 
The material falls into two groups, the rock-cut and the painted. 
The former is by far the larger, possibly because rock-cut drawings 
are little affected by exposure to sand scouring and other forms of 
_ weathering and have therefore been preserved in greater numbers, 
but more probably because their production required no parapher- 
nalia beyond sharp-pointed stones such as are present at the foot of 
every cliff. The vast majority were made by pecking away the 
darkly weathered surface of the rock, the figures thus being of a 
lighter color than their surroundings. While even to-day the con- 
trast of tone between figure and background is discernible, it is not 
nearly so much so as when the pecking is fresh; the ancient figures 
have themselves been weathered to a considerable extent, and there 
is seldom danger of being deceived as to the age of any examples. 
The subject matter of the drawings is rather limited, mountain 
sheep and human figures predominating; there are also a number of 
four-legged creatures with short tails, and a few birds. No vegetal 
forms can be recognized. As to the meanings of the labyrinth-like 
peckings and the concentric circles of dots, it is not profitable even 
to guess. Although the execution of all these pictographs seems to 
us crude.and conventional, they are for the greater part obviously 
naturalistic in motive; much more so than, for instance, those of the 
Rio Grande drainage. In most cases the figures bear no apparent 
relation to each other, mountain sheep, human forms, labyrinths, 
spirals, and the like, being pecked haphazard on the rock faces, often 
running over and partly or wholly obliterating each other; in some 
instances, however, grouping is evidently intentional, and we seem 
to see attempts at narrative representation. This and other features 
will be brought out in the following notes. 
PrecKkep PicroGRAPHS ? 
SINGLE FIGURES 
Mountain sheep (pl. 89) are perhaps the commonest of all depic- 
tions. They range in size from 6 inches to 5 feet or even 6 feet in 
1 We saw a Navaho boy of 6 or 7 years drawing pictures of horses on the rocks with 
a bit of charcoal while his father was working in a near-by field. 
2In each drawing of a pictograph there is introduced a bar representing a length of 
one foot. 
90521°—19—Bull. 6513 
