52 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
CALIFORNIA, 
In the foothills of California, wherever overhanging and rain-protected 
rocks oceur, they are covered with paintings of various kinds made by 
Indians. Those on Rocky hill, some 15 miles east of Visalia, are espe- 
cially interesting. The sheltered rocks are here covered with images of 
men, animals, and various inanimate objects, as well as curious figures. 
The paint used is red, black, and white, and wherever protected it has 
stood the ravages of time remarkably well. In many places the paint- 
ings are as vivid as the day they were laid on. Deer, antelope, coyotes, 
birds, and turtles are figured quite frequently, and may indicate either 
names of chiefs or tribes, or animals slain in the hunt. Here are also 
circles, spirals, crowns or bars, ete., signs the meaning of which is yet 
doubtful. 
Fic. 10.—Petroglyph in Mound canyon, Arizona. 
Mr. H. W. Turner, in a letter dated June 3, 1891, furnishes sketches 
(Fig. 11) from this locality, and a description of them as follows: 
I send herewith a rough sheet of drawings of figures on the sheltered face of a 
huge granite cropping in Tulare county, California. One-half of the cropping had 
split off, leaving a nearly plane surface, on which the figures were drawn in red, 
white, and black pigments. The locality is known as Rocky point. They are now 
quarrying granite at the place. It lies about 12 miles nearly due east of Visalia, in 
the first foothills and south of Yokall creek. The figures appear to have been drawn 
mnany years ago, and numbers of them are now indistinct. 
During the summer of 1882 Dr. Hoffman visited the Tule river agency, 
California, where he found a large rock painting, of which Fig. 983, 
infra, is a copy made by him. His description of it is as follows: 
“The agency is upon the western side of the Sierra Nevada, in the 
headwater canyons of the branches of the south fork of Tule river. The 
