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part through extracts published by Mullery." Piiiart spent some time 

 in Porto Kico and was the first to point out the pictographs described by 

 him, and he independently rediscovered several others, which he men- 

 tions. His pamphlet is an important contribution, although on account 

 of its rarit}' it has been overlooked by some of our foremost students 

 of the subject. 



Among other important contributions to our knowledge of Porto 

 Rican pictography may be mentioned the small pamphlets by Dumont 

 and Kriig,'' both of whom consider practically the same specimens, 

 having apparent)}' derived their knowledge not from personal inspec- 

 tion but from a manuscript preserved in San Juan. The pictographs 

 which they describe, and of which Krtig gives a full-page plate, are 

 said to be on a rock called Piedra de la Campami ("bell stone")'' set 

 on two upright rocks in the middle of the Rio (xrande de Loisa, not 

 far from the town of Gurabo. 



A perusal of these publications induced the author to visit Gurabo, 

 and, although he was not able to iind these pictographs, he was rewarded 

 by the sight of a bowlder, also poised on two upright rocks, situated in 

 the Loisa river halfway between Caguas and Gurabo. This stone, 

 locally known as the Cabeza de los Indios ( ' ' head of the Indians " ), was 

 found to bear several rude incised figures which were too illegible to 

 be identified. 



There are scattered references to the subject of Porto Rican pic- 

 tography in popular books on the island which have appeared since 

 the American occupancy. These have a value in pointing out other- 

 wise unknown localities in which pictographs may be found. Porto 

 Rico apparently has a lai'ger number of these rock pictures than one 

 would at first suspect, but in a short article attention may be directed 

 to onl\' a few tj'pical forms. ^' 



In a general way Porto Rican pictographs fall under the following 

 heads'- with refei-ence to the localities in which they are found: (1) 

 River pictographs, (2) cave pictographs, and (3) pictographs on the 

 boundary stones of inclosures identified as dance plazas. ' Of these the 



J Picture Writing of the American Indians, Tenth Report of the Bureau uf Ethnology p. 1311, 1S93. 

 Since the above lines were written the author has received a copy of this worii, whicli is particularly 

 important as pointing out localities in Porto Rico in which pictographs occur. Pinart mentions these 

 figures from Ciales and from Malloquin at Cabo Rojo. He refers to river pictographs near the mouth 

 of the Cano del Indio, at Ceiba and Rio Blanco, and at the Loma Mufioz, above Rio Arriba, in the 

 Fajado district. The piedra pintada, or painted rocli, said to be situated on the road from Cayey to 

 Aibonito, and the rock with pictographs on Don Pedro Parez's farm, near Carolina, are possibly pillar 

 stones. Pinart's illustrations are too imperfect to aid the student in ideutilications of the pictographs. 



bh. Krtig, Indianische AlterthUmer in Porto Rico, Zeitschri/t fiir Ethnolorjk, Berlin, ISTC; Dr 

 D. Enrique Dumont, Investigaeiones acerca de las .\ntiquedades de la Isla de Puerto Rico (Borin- 

 quen), Habana, 1876. 



clt is said to have been used as a bell to call the natives together. 



^'Doctor Stahl, who has published the most complete work on the Porto Rican Indians, appears to 

 have overlooked their pictographs. 



eThe claim that the prehistoric Porto Ricans possessed a form of hieroglyphic writing has not been 

 substantiated. The specimens with characters on them are believed to be forgeries. 



