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beautifully engraved to represent a bull’s eye of 4 rings, an arrow with a very large 
feather, and one which may mean a man. In a steep canyon 15 miles northeast of 
Reno, in Spanish Spring mountains, several cliffs are well marked, and an exposed 
ledge, where the Carson river has cut off the point of a hill below Big Bend, is 
covered with rings and snakes by the hundred. Several triangles, a well-formed 
square and compass, « woman with outstretched arms holding an olive branch, ete., 
are there. 
Humboldt county has its share, the best being on a blutf below the old Sheba 
mine. Ten miles south of Pioche are about 50 figures cut into the rock, many of 
them designed to represent mountain sheep. Eighty miles farther south, near Kane’s 
Spring, the most numerous and perfect specimens of this prehistoric art are found. 
Men on horseback engaged in the pursuit of animals are among the most numerous, 
best preserved, and carefully executed. 
The region I have gone over is of immense size, and must impress everyone with 
the importance of a set of symbols which extends in broken lines from Arizona far 
into Oregon. 
Fig. 55 exhibits engravings at Reveillé, Nevada. Great munbers of 
incised characters of various kinds are also reported from the walls of 
rocks flanking Walker river, near Walker lake, Nevada. Waving 
lines, rings, and what appear to be vegetable forms are of frequent 
occurrence. The human form and footprints are also depicted. 
Fig. 56 is a copy of a drawing made by Lieut. A. G, Tassin, Twelfth 
U.S. Infantry, in 1877, of an ancient rock-carving at the base and in 
the recesses of Dead mountain and the abode of dead bad Indians ac- 
cording to the Mohave mythology. This drawing and its deseription is 
from a manuscript report on the Mohave Indians, in the library of the 
of the Bureau of Ethnology, prepared by Lieut. Tassin. 
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He explains some of the characters as follows: 
(a) Evidently the two different species of mesquite bean. 
(b) Would seem to refer to the bite of the cidatus, and to the use of a certain herh 
for its cure. 
(c) Presumably the olla or water cooler of the Mohaves. 
