92 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
men who passed to the happy hunting grounds, of life size, the sandstone being so 
soft that the engravings would be made witha piece of wood. They are represented 
with the special cause (arrow, gun, ete.), which sped them to hades. The souls 
themselves are said to make these pictographs before repairing ‘to the spirits.” 
Fig. 53.—Characters from Nebraska petroglyphs. = 
Rey. J. Owen Dorsey, of the Bureau of Ethnology, says that the 
probable rendering of the term when corrected is, “Spirit(s) they- 
made-themselves the (place where).” 
NEVADA. 
Petroglyphs have been found by members of the U. 8S. Geological 
Survey at the lower extremity of Pyramid lake, Nevada, though no ac- 
curate reproductions are available. These characters are mentioned as 
incised upon the surface of basalt rocks. 
Petroglyphs also occur in considerable numbers on the western slope 
of Lone Butte, in the Carson desert. All of these appear to have been 
produced on the faces of bowlders and rocks by pecking and seratch- 
ing with some hard mineral material like quartz. 
Fic. 54.—Petroglyphs on Carson river, Nevada. 
A communication from Mr. R. L. Fulton, of Reno, Nevada, tells that 
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the drawing now reproduced as Fig. 54 is a pencil sketch of curious 
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petroglyphs on a rock on the Carson river, about 8 miles below old 
