56 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
The remaining characters are in dull red, probably ocher, though the 
two on the left hand, beneath the one just mentioned, are more yel- 
lowish. 
“The first three forms in Fig. 16 are copies of human-like figures 
painted on the ceiling. They are each about 12 inches in length. The 
other form in Fig. 16 is white and ison the southern vertical wall of the 
passageway facing the north. It resembles some of the human forms 
occurring elsewhere in the same series of petroglyphs.” 
Fig. 14.—Petroglyph at Tule river, California. 
OWENS VALLEY. 
In the range of mountains forming the northwestern boundary of 
Owens valley are extensive groups of petroglyphs, apparently dissim- 
ilar to those found west of the Sierra Nevada. Dr. Hoffman, of 
the Bureau of Ethnology, hastily examined them in 1871 and more 
thoroughly in the autumn of 1884. They are now represented in Pls. 1 
to x1. So large a space is given to these illustrations because of their 
intrinsic interest, and also because it is desirable to show for one 
locality what is true of some others, viz, the very large number of petro- 
glyphs still to be found in groups and series. Even with the present 
illustrations, the petroglyphs in Owens valley are by no means exhaust- 
ively shown. 
Dr. Hoffman’s report is as follows: 
