MALLERY.] PETROGLYPHS IN ARIZONA. 51 
Petroglyphs are reported by Lieut. Theodore Mosher, Twenty-second 
Infantry, U.S. Army, to have been discovered by Lieut. Casey’s party 
in December, 1887, on the Chiulee (or Chilali) creek, 30 or 40 miles 
from its confluence with San Juan river, Arizona. A photograph 
made by the officer in charge of the party shows the characters to have 
been outlined by pecking, the designs resembling the Shoshonean type 
of pictographs, and those in Owens valley, California, a description of 
which is given below. 
A figure, consisting of two concentric circles with a straight line 
running out from the larger cirele, occurs, among other carvings, on 
one of the many sculptured bowlders seen by Mr. J. R. Bartlett (@) in 
the valley of the Gila river in Arizona. His representation of this 
bowlder is here copied as Fig. 8. His language is as follows: 
I found hundreds of these bowlders covered with rude figures of men, animals, and 
other objects of grotesque forms, all pecked in with a sharp instrument. Many of 
them, however, were so much defaced by long exposure to the weather and by subse- 
quent markings, thatit was impossible to make them out. Among these rocks I found 
Fic. 8.—Petroglyph in Shinumo canyon, Arizona. 
several which contained sculptures on the lower side, in such a position that it would 
be impossible to cut them where they then lay. Some weighed many tons each 
and would have required immense labor to place them there, and that, too, without 
an apparent object. The natural inference was that they had fallen down from the 
summit of the mountain after the sculptures were made on them. A few only 
seemed recent; the others bore the marks of great antiquity. 
In the collections of the Bureau of Ethnology is an album or sketch 
book, which contains many drawings made by Mr. F. 8. Dellenbaugh, 
from which the following sketches of petroglyphs in Arizona are selected, 
together with the brief references attached to each sheet. 
Fig. 9 is a copy of characters appearing in Shinumo canyon, Arizona. 
They are painted, the middle and right hand figures being red, the 
human form having a white mark upon the abdomen; the left-hand 
figure of a man is painted yellow, the two plumes being red. 
The petroglyphs in Fig. 10 are rather indistinct and were copied from 
the vertical wall of Mound canyon. The most conspicuous forms 
appear to be serpents. 
