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sites and plazas where tlie Indians assembled for ceremonial and other 

 dances, while near by are found some of the tinest examples of pictog- 

 raph}' known in the island. 



Among the many groups of pictographs found in the neighborhood 

 of the town of LTtuado one occurs on a river bowlder situated at the 

 southeastern corner of the estate of Senor Roig. One can readily find 

 tills bowlder by following the road from Utuado to Adjuntas, passing 

 the Roig farmhouse on the right, and continuing about three miles 

 from the former town. The bowlder lies to the right onlj' a short 

 distance from the road, and is situated conveniently near a dance 

 plaza, which will be presently described. The pictographs, eight or 

 nine in number (plate lx, pt 1), co\er the entire upper face of the 

 bowlder, a fiat surface about 15 feet above the base. 



The pictograph shown in 1> is one of the best on this rock. It is well 

 made and consists of a circular head with two projections or horns on 

 the top, pits for ej'es, and an oval mouth connected with the eyes by 

 a line which extends upward midway between them. The oval body 

 contains a median line, with other lines, partly efl'aced, parallel to one 

 another, probably representing arms. 



A second pictograph (<:■), with a horned head, resembles in general 

 shape the one just described. It has a circular mouth connected with 

 the outline of the head. The body has a similar medio-veutral line, 

 with horizontal lines suggesting arms. Eyes are represented l\v small 

 pits. It will be observed that these two jiictographs are in all particu- 

 lars practically identical in character. 



A pictograph {d) of another kind, also found on the stone in the 

 middle of the river, consists of two concentric circles, in the inner one 

 of which are pits representing the eyes and mouth. It has a medio- 

 fiontal line, bifurcated at the center of the inner circle, and lines 

 radiating from the outer circle," suggesting a solar emblem. 



Specimen e is directly comparable with that figured as d; but, while 

 the latter has the eyes and mouth in the middle of the inner circle, in 

 the former the inner circle contains an elliptical design. On one side 

 this figure {e) has a projection which is indistinct on account of a 

 fracture in the surface of the rock, but, as in the preceding picto- 

 graph, lines radiate from the outer circle. 



An instructive feature of several of these Porto Rican pictographs 

 is the median groove which connects the mouth with the ring groove- 

 bounding the face. This anomalous way of drawing the face reap- 

 pears in certain South American j)ictographs from Chiriqui,* and in 

 one of the figures described by Doctor Seemanu we find also the added 

 horns. Whether or not these figures may be rightly interpreted as 



n See the figure with similar radiating lines, in Stahl's Los Indios Borinquenos. pi. iv, tig. 20. 

 I> For McNeil's sketch of the pictographs here referred to, see Sixth EepuH vf the Bureau, of Elhnol- 

 ogtj, p. 22, 1888. 



