he PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
an upward direction by an Indian whose headdress and ends of the 
breecheloth are visible. To the right of the bale are three short lines, 
evidently showing the knot or ends of the cords used in tying a bale of 
blankets without colors, therefore of less importance, or of other goods. 
Other human forms appear in the attitude of making gestures, one 
also in j, Fig. 33, probably carrying a bale of goods. In the same 
figure w represents a centipede, an insect found occasionally south of 
the mountains, but reported as extremely rare in the immediate north- 
ern regions. For remarks upon win the same figure see Chapter xx, 
Section 2, under the heading The Cross. 
Mr. Coronel stated that when he first settled in Los Angeles, in 1843, 
the Indians living north of the San Fernando mountains manufactured 
blankets of the fur and hair of animals, showing transverse bands of 
black and white similar to those depicted, which were sold to the in- 
habitants of the valley of Los Angeles and to Indians who transported 
them to other tribes. 
It is probable that the pictographs are intended to represent the sali- 
ent features of a trading expedition from the north. The ceiling of the 
cavity found between the paintings represented in the two figures has 
disappeared, owing to disintegration, thus leaving a blank about 4 feet 
iong, and 6 feet from the top to the bottom between the paintings as 
now presented. 
COLORADO. 
Petroglyphs are reported by Mr. Cyrus F. Neweomb as found upon 
cliffs on Rock creek, 15 miles from Rio Del Norte, Colorado. Three 
small photographs, submitted with this statement, indicate the char- 
acters to have been pecked; they consist of men on horseback, cross- 
shaped human figures, animals, and other designs greatly resembling 
those found in the country of the Shoshonean tribes, examples of which 
are given infra. 
Another notice of the same general locality is made by Capt. E. L. 
Berthoud (a) as follows: 
The place is 20 miles southeast of Rio Del Norte, at the entrance of the canyon of the 
Piedra Pintada (Painted rock) creek. The carvings are found on the right of the 
canyon or valley and upon voleanic rocks, They bear the marks of age and are cut in, 
not painted, as is still done by the Utes everywhere. They are found for a quarter 
of a mile along the north wall of the canyon, on the ranches of W. M. Maguire 
and F. T. Hudson, and consist of all manner of pictures, symbols, and hieroglyphies 
done by artists whose memory even tradition does not now preserve. The fact that 
these are carvings done upon such hard rock invests them with additional interest, 
as they are quite distinet from the carvings I saw in New Mexico and Arizona on 
soft sandstone. Though some of them are evidently of much greater antiquity than 
others, yet all are ancient, the Utes admitting them to have been old when their 
fathers conquered the country. 
Mr. Charles D. Wright, of Durango, Colorado, in a communication 
dated February 20, 1885, gives an account of some “ hieroglyphs” on 
