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Mesa Verde that might still survive among these people, 
and incidentally to collect as much material about their 
social institutions as possible. 
Mr. Guha arrived at Towoac on July 14, 1921, and.spent a 
couple of weeks visiting the different camps of the Utes. 
Among the Wiminuche Utes, unfortunately, there does not 
appear to survive any legends or myths about the Mesa 
Verde. All that could be gathered from the oldest living 
members of the tribe was that when their ancestors first 
came to the Ute Mountain from the north, the whole region 
from the La Plata to the Blue Mountains and from Dolores 
to the San Juan was full of ruims such as now may be seen. 
They were already abandoned, but there were signs of the 
cultivation of corn about them. 
After leaving Towoac Mr. Guha went to Shiprock, N. 
Mex., and stayed there until September 5, 1921. Unlike 
the Utes, the Navaho seem to possess survivals of myths 
about the ancient Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde. How far 
these legends have any historical background it is difficult 
to say, but they at any rate suggest some earlier and closer 
relationship between them and the people who lived in the 
ruins so liberally strewn over the entire region. 
In September, 1921, Mr. John L. Baer, acting curator of 
American Archeology in the United States National Museum, 
made an investigation for the bureau of pictographie rocks 
in the Susquehanna River. In the middle of the river be- 
tween Bald Friar and Conowingo, Md., are a number of 
huge bowlders of serpentine or gabbro, bearing inscriptions, 
a few of which have been heretofore described in the Tenth 
Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology and in 
Volume CCC (Lancaster County) Second Geological Sur- 
vey of Pennsylvania. The largest and most important of 
these pictographic rocks were found to be on Miles’ Island 
at the head of Gray Rock Falls. Large surfaces of these 
rocks seem to have been polished before the figures were 
pecked upon them. Pits, grooved lines indicating tally 
marks, circles with radiating spokes, concentric circles, faces, 
and fishlike outlines were the prevailing figures observed. 
