606 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS [BTH. ANN. 33 
call the abode of the spirit Makunaima, they described as 300 or 400 
feet high, and covered with hieroglyphic figures like the rocks at the 
cataracts of Waraputa, etc. (Sc, 213). 
Rio Branco: On the Suquadie River, a branch of the Ireng, near 
the Twin Fall, upon some flat jasperous sandstone rocks exposed on 
the savanna, were numerous carved figures of the sun, snakes, 
spirals, and circles, formed by Indians of a bygone time (BB, 288). 
Rio Negro: At Arruyabai the figures were in the form of a laby- 
rinth and were remarkable for the depth to which they were cut in 
tlie rock [a ledge of granite]; and although the footpath leads over 
these rocks, and thousands may have walked over them, the figures 
are not at all obliterated. An attempt to imitate the figures at a 
later period, and probably with a hammer and chisel, is nearly 
effaced, and shows more strongly the peculiar skill of the original 
workmen, whoever they might have been (SeQ, 255). 
At the Ilha de Pedra, on the Rio Negro just below its junction with 
the Rio Branco... They [engravings] are numerous and con- 
sist of representations of men, birds, and animals. On one large 
bowlder 13 figures representing men are arranged in a line as if 
dancing. The most remarkable figures, however, are the representa- 
tion of two vessels under sail, the smaller a two-masted vessel, the 
larger not unlike a galleon. [Illustration given.] These figures, it 
should be remarked, are not so deeply cut as those on the Corentyn 
or at Waraputa on the Essequibo (ScQ, 261). 
Uaupes River, etc. (ARW, 362; KGF, etc.), Cassiquiare River, 
just south of the Pomoni: Several circles and lines on some granite 
rocks (ScQ, 248). Figures (IKGF, 2, 8, 10). 
Orinoco River: Rock carvings on some hills a few miles from the 
Vichada River near a Guahibo village, representing the moon, and 
hence called locally the Cerro de la Luna (Cr, 549). 
In the Western Guianas, Rojas has written some interesting de- 
scriptions of certain Venezuelan rock engravings and paintings 
(AR, 176-198). 
782. Besides engraved rocks there are reliable descriptions of 
painted ones, and though we may lay claim to a little knowledge 
of some of the facts concerning the former, we certainly are in an 
unhappy state of entire ignorance concerning the latter. On the 
Urawan, a branch of the Cuyuni, drawings of frogs on the rocks 
seem to have been made by rubbing on the rock with some harder 
substance (McTurk, Ti, June, 1882, p. 129). Barrington Brown 
speaks of a large white sandstone rock ornamented with figures in 
red paint, at Amailah Falls on the Curiebrong, a branch of the 
Potaro. When in the Pacaraima Mountains, on the Brazilian fron- 
tier, Im Thurn heard of the existence of similar paintings in that 
