50 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Lieut. Whipple («) remarks upon petroglyphs at Yampais spring, 
Williams river, as follows: 
The spot is a seeluded glen among the mountains. A high shelving rock forms a 
eave, within which is a pool of water and a crystal stream flowing from it. The 
lower surface of the rock is covered with pictographs. None of the devices seem 
to be of recent date. 
Many of the country rocks lying on the Colorado plateau of northern 
Arizona, east of Peach springs, bear petroglyphs of considerable artistic 
workmanship. Some figures, observed by Dr, W. J. Hoffman in 1872, 
were rather elaborate and represented the sun, human beings in vari- 
ous styles approaching the grotesque, and other characters not under- 
stood. All of those observed were made by pecking the surface of ba- 
salt with a harder variety of stone. 
Mr. Gilbert also obtained sketches of etchings in November, 1878, on 
Partridge creek, northern Arizona, at the point where the Beale wagon 
road comes to it from the east. Hesays: ‘“ The rock is cross-laminated 
Aubrey sandstone and the surfaces used are faces of the lamine. All 
Fic. 8.—Petroglyph in Arizona. 
the work is done by blows with a sharp point. (Obsidian is abundant 
in the vicinity.) Some inscriptions are so fresh as to indicate that the 
locality is still resorted to. No Indians live in the immediate vicinity, 
but the region is a hunting ground of the Wallapais and Avasupais 
(Cosninos).” 
Notwithstanding the occasional visits of the above named tribes, 
the characters submitted more nearly resemble those of other localities 
known to have been made by the Moki Pueblos. 
Rock drawings are of frequent occurrence along the entire extent of 
the valley of the Rio Verde, from a short distance below Camp Verde 
to the Gila river. 
Mr. Thomas V. Keam reports drawings on the rocks in Canyon Segy, 
and in Keam’s canyon, northeastern Arizona. Some forms occurring at 
the latter locality are found also upon Moki pottery. 
