MALLERY. | IN NAJOWKE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. 65 
Serpentine and zigzag lines oceur, as also curved lines with serra 
tions on the concave sides; figures of the sun; short lines and groups 
of short parallel lines, and figures representing types of insect forms 
also appear, as Shown in Figs. 21 and 22. 
These paintings are in a cavity near the base of an immense bowlder, 
over 20 feet in height. A short distance from this is a flat granitic 
bowlder, containing twenty-one mortar holes, which had evidently been 
Iie. 25.—Petrogly pls, Najowe valley, California, 
used by visiting Indians during the acorn season. Oaks are very 
abundant, and their fruit formed one of the sources of subsistence. 
Three miles west-northwest of this locality, in the valley near the 
base of the mountain, are indistinct figures in faded red, painted upon a 
large rock. The characters appear similar, in general, to those above 
mentioned. 
Forty-three miles west of Santa Barbara, in the Najowe valley, is a 
10 ETH a) 
