96 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
The whole of this series of petroglyphs is regarded as being Shinumo 
or Moki. They show a general resemblance to drawings in Arizona, 
known to have been made by the Moki Indians. The locality is within 
the territory of the Shoshonean linguistic division, and the drawings 
are in all probability the work of one or more of the numerous tribes 
comprised within that division. 
NEW MEXICO. 
On the north wall of Canyon de Chelly, one-fourth of a mile east of 
its mouth, are several groups of petroglyphs, consisting chiefly of vari- 
ous grotesque forms of the human figure, and also numbers of animals, 
circles, etc. A few of them are painted black, the greater portion con- 
sisting of rather shallow lines, which are in some places considerably 
weathered. Further up the canyon, in the vicinity of the cliff dwell- 
ings, are numerous small groups of pictographic characters, consisting 
of men and animals, waving or zigzag lines, and other odd figures. 
Lieut. James H. Simnson (qa), in his Journal of a Military Reconnois-. 
sance, etc., presents a number of plates bearing copies of inscriptions 
on rocks in the northwestern part of New Mexico, among which are 
those on the so-called “Inscription rock” at El Moro, here reproduced 
as Fig. 57. The petroglyphs are selected from the south face of the 
rock. Lieut. Simpson states that most of the characters are no higher 
than a man’s head, and that some of them are undoubtedly of Indian 
origin. 
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Fic. 57.—Inseription rock, New Mexico. 
' Among the many colored etchings and paintings on rock discovered 
by the Pacific railroad expedition in 1853~54, Lieut. Whipple (¢) notes 
those at Rocky dell creek, New Mexico, which were found between the 
edge of the Llano Estacado and the Canadian river. The stream flows 
through a gorge, upon one side of which a shelving sandstone rock 
forms a sort of cave. The roof is covered with paintings, some evi- ~ 
dently ancient, and beneath are innumerable carvings of footprints, 
animals, and symmetrical lines. He also remarks (d) that figures cut 
upon a rock at Arch spring, near Zuni, present some faint similarity 
to those at Rocky dell creek. 
