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length. Realism depends largely on size, no attempt having been 
made in the smaller examples to show such details as the division 
of the hoofs or the mouths and the ears. No two are exactly alike, 
but all conform to a very definite style, which is more easily made 
out from the illustrations than from description. 
Anthropomorphic figures are scarcely less common than sheep. 
They approach true realism particularly in the hunting scenes (see 
below), the isolated or single examples (pl. 90) being usually rather 
conventional, though hairdressing (resembling the Hopi girl’s style, 
pl. 90, 7, h) and headdress (7, 7) are shown. Whether the crea- 
tures with tails (g, 7, #, 0, p) are animal or human (with dance 
paraphernalia such as pendent foxtails) is uncertain. 
Birds are rare, much more so than in the Grand Gulch-Montezuma 
Creek country to the north of the San Juan. The two most striking 
examples are shown in plate 91, a,b. The species is, of course, doubt- 
ful. It should be remarked that the appendage with an arrowhead- 
like termination on the neck of one and the small projection from the 
breast of the other may be the remains of earlier drawings, the latter 
possibly the head of a mountain sheep. 
Aside from the above types and a few snakes and hand prints, the 
rest of the single figures recorded are of unknown nature. 
GROUPS 
Plate 93, b, figure 96, and plate 94 show groupings of figures that 
were presumably made with narrative intention. Each one of these 
sets occupies a single rock face that contains no drawings other than 
those reproduced.t. Plate 93, 6 (Ruin 5 Canyon, Hagoé) records the 
largest lot; in it are a number of mountain sheep, some of which 
are accompanied by series of hoof marks. There is also a set of 
barefoot human tracks following the ithyphallic sheep on the left. 
The individual who made the tracks evidently came to a stop behind 
the sheep, as right and left foot are placed side by side instead of in 
the alternating order in which they approach the spot. In the upper 
right-hand corner is another series of human footprints made by a 
man who seems to be lassoing a sheep (compare also the sheep at 
center bottom with footprints and with reata about horns). In the 
same quarter is a partly obliterated humpbacked figure holding a 
long object to its mouth; the reclining position should be noted.? 
Figure 96, 4 (from the opposite side of the same canyon) has 
obvious similarities to the foregoing; there are the same tracks lead- 
1 Except that the large bird (pl. 91, 6) was placed a few feet below and to the right 
of the group (pl. 93, b). 
* The act of holding something to the mouth will be referred to for convenience as 
“ flute-playing,” though it is by no means certain that some other performance is not 
indicated, such as stick-swallowing, cloud-blowing, or even, though less probably, shoot- 
ing with a blowgun. . 
