MALLERY.] IN SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA. a 
At the private ethnologic collection of Mr. A. F. Coronel, of Los 
Angeles, California, Dr. Hoffman discovered a clue to the general import 
of the above petroglyphs, as well as the signification of some of their 
characters. In a collection of colored illustrations of old Mexican cos- 
tumes he found blankets bearing borders and colors nearly identical 
with those shown in the cireles in Fig. 32, d, and Fig. 33, ¢, r, w. Itis 
probable that the circles represent bales of blankets which early be- 
came articles of trade at the Santa Barbara mission. If this supposi- 
tion is correct, the cross lines would seem to represent the cords used 
in tying the blankets into bales, which same cross lines appear as 
cords in /, Fig. 33. Mr. Coronel also possesses small figures of Mexi- 
cans, of various conditions of life, costumes, trades, and professions, 
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Fig, 33.—Petroglyph in Santa Barbara county, California. 
one of which, a painted statuette, is a representation of a Mexican 
lying down flat upon an outspread serape, similar in color and form to 
the black and white bands shown in the upper figure of d, Fig. 32, and 
a, b, of Fig. 33, and instantly suggesting the explanation of those 
figures. Upon the latter the continuity of the black and white bands 
is broken, as the human figures are probably intended to be in front, 
or on top, of the drawings of the blankets. 
The small statuette above mentioned is that of a Mexican trader, and 
if the circles in the petroglyphs are considered to represent bales of 
blankets, the character in Fig. 32, d, is still more interesting, from the 
union of one of these circles with a character representing the trader, i.e., 
the man possessing the bales. Bales, or what appear to be bales, are 
represented to the top and right of the circle in d, in that figure. In 
Fig. 33, 1, a bale is upon the back of what appears to be a horse, led in 
