MALLERY. | PETROGLYPHS IN CALIFORNIA. 53 
country is at present occupied by several tribes of the Mariposan 
linguistic stock, and the only answer made to inquiries respecting the 
age or origin of the painting was that it was found there when the an- 
cestors of the present tribes arrived. The local migrations of the vari- 
ous Indian tribes of this part of California are not yet known with suffi- 
cient certainty to determine to whom the records may be credited, but 
all appearances with respect to the weathering and disintegration of the 
rock upon which the record is engraved, the appearance of the coloring 
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Fig. 11.—Petroglyphs near Visalia, California. 
matter subsequently applied, and the condition of the small depressions 
made at the time for mixing the pigments with a viscous substance, in- 
dicate that the work was performed about a century ago. 
“The Indians now at Tule river have occupied that part of the state 
for at least one hundred years, and the oldest now living state that the 
records were found by their ancestors, though whether more than two 
generations ago could not be ascertained. 
