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daily deposited by every tide, the rock being situated at a short dis- 
tance inshore. Visitors are frequent, and the guide or ferryman does 
not interfere with them so long as he can show his passengers the 
famous inscription. 
The resemblance between the characters on this rock and those found 
in western Pennsylvania, near Millsboro, Fig. 75, and south of Franklin, 
on the “ Indian God rock,” Fig. 74, will be noted. 
In Rafi’s Antiq. Amer. ()) is the following account: 
A large stone, on which is a line of considerable length in unknown characters, 
has been recently found in Rutland, Worcester county, Massachusetts; they are 
regularly placed, and the strokes are filled with a black composition nearly as hard 
as the rock itself. The Committee also adds that a similar rock is to be found in 
Swanzy, county of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, perhaps ten miles 
from the Dighton Rock. 
MINNESOTA, 
The late Mr. P. W. Norris, who was connected with the Bureau of 
Ethnology, reported large numbers of pecked totemic characters on the 
horizontal faces of the ledges of rock at Pipestone quarry in Minnesota, 
and presented some imitations of the peckings. There is a tradition 
that it was formerly the custom for each Indian who gathered stone 
(catlinite) for pipes, to inseribe his totem (whether clan or tribal or 
personal totem is not specified) upon the rock before venturing to 
quarry upon this ground. Some of the cliffs in the immediate vicinity 
were of too hard a nature to admit of pecking or scratching, and upon 
these the characters were placed in colors. Mr. Norris distinguished 
bird tracks, the outline of a bird resembling a pelican, deer, turtle, a 
circle with an interior cross, and a human figure. 
Examples of so-called totemic designs from this locality are given in 
Fig. 50, which are reproduced from the work of R. Cronau (a): 
The same petroglyphs and also others at the Pipestone quarry are 
described and illustrated by Prof. N. H. Winchell (a). A part of his 
remarks is as follows: 
On the glaciated surface of the quartzite about the ‘Three Maidens,” which is 
kept clean by the rebound of the winds, are a great many rude inseriptions, which 
were made by pecking out the rock with some sharp-pointed instrument or by the 
use of other pieces of quartzite. They are of different sizes and dates, the latter 
being evinced by their manner of crossing and interfering and by the evident dif- 
ference in the weight of the instruments used. They generally represent some animal, 
such as the turtle, bear, wolf, buffalo, elk, and the human form. The ‘‘crane’s foot’ 
is the most common; next is the image of men; next the turtle. It would seemas if 
any warrior or hunter who had been successful and happened to pass here left his 
tribute of thanks to the great spirit in a rude representation of his game and perhaps 
a figure of himself on the rocks about these bowlders, or perhaps had in a similar 
way invoked the good offices of the spirits of his clan when abont to enter on some 
expedition. In some cases there is a connection of several figures by « continuous 
line, chipped in the surface of the rock in such a manner as if some legend or adven- 
ture were narrated, but for the most part the figures are isolated. This is the ‘sacred 
ground” of the locality. Such markings can be seen at no other place, though there 
is abundance of bare, smooth rock. (Similar inscriptions are found on the red 
