sO) PICTURE WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
ably in nearly the same condition it was when the French voyagers first descended 
the river and got their first view of the Mississippi. The animal-like body, with the 
human head, is carved in the rock in outline. The huge eyes are depressions like 
saucers, an inch or more in depth, and the outline of the body has been scooped out 
in the same way; also the mouth. 
The figure of the archer with the drawn bow, however, is painted, or rather 
stained with a reddish brown pigment, over the sculptured outline of the monster's 
face. 
Mr. McAdams suggests that the painted figure of the human form 
with the bow and arrows was made later than the seulpture. 
The same author (b) says, describing Fig, 438: 
Some 3 or 4 miles above Alton, high up beneath the overhanging cliff, which forms 
a sort of eave shelter on the smooth face of a thick ledge of rock, is a series of paint- 
ings, twelve in number. They are painted or rather stained in the rock with a 
reddish brown pigment that seems to defy the tooth of time. It may be said, 
however, that their position is so sheltered that they remain almost perfectly dry. 
We made sketches of them some thirty years ago and on a recent visit could see that 
they had changed but little, although their appearance denotes great age. 
These pictographs are situated on the cliff more than a hundred feet above the 
river. A protruding ledge, which is easily reached from a hollow in the bluff, leads 
to the cavernous place in the rock. 
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Mr. James D. Middleton, formerly of the Bureau of Ethnology, 
mentions the occurrence of petroglyphs on the bluffs of the Mississippi 
river, in Jackson county, about 12 miles below Rockwood. Also of 
others about 4 or 5 miles from Prairie du Rocher, near the Mississippi 
river. 
IOWA. 
Mr. P. W. Norris, of the Bureau of Ethnology, found numerous caves 
on the banks of the Mississippi river, in northeastern Iowa, 4 miles 
south of New Albion, containing incised petroglyphs. Fifteen miles 
south of this locality paintings occur on the cliffs. He also discovered 
painted characters upon the cliffs on the Mississippi river, 19 miles be- 
low New Albion. 
KANSAS. 
Mr. Kdward Miller reports in Proceedings of the American Philo- 
sophical Society, vol. xX, 1869, p. 383, the discovery of a petroglyph near | 
the line of the Union Pacific railroad, 15 miles southeast of Fort Harker, 
formerly known as Fort Ellsworth, Kansas. The petroglyph is upon 
a formation belonging to No. 1, Lower Cretaceous group, according to 
the classification of Meek and Hayden. 
