MALLERY. | IN NEW MEXICO. 97 
Near Ojo Peseado, in the vicinity of the ruins, are petroglpyhs, also 
reported by Lieut. Whipple (d), which are very much weather-worn 
and have “no trace of a modern hand about them.” 
Mr. Edwin A. Hill, of Indianapolis, in a letter, notes petroglyphs on 
the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, between Antonite and Espanola. 
Below Tres Piedras and near Espanola are rude sculptures, lining the 
valley on both sides of the road for a long distance, at least several 
miles. The canyon has a slope of about 45° and contains many 
bowlders, and on every available face pictographs are cut. Figures of 
arrows, hatchets, circles, triangles, bows, spears, turtles, etc., are out- 
lined as if with some cutting-tool. The country had two years before 
been occupied by Apaches, but far greater age is attributed to the 
petroglyphs. 
Other petroglyphs actually within the geographical area of New 
Mexico are so near the border that they are treated of in connection 
with those of Colorado. 
Prof. E. D. Cope (@) gives a copy of figures which he found on the 
side of a ravine near Abiquiu, on the river Chama. They are cut in 
Jurassic sandstone of medium hardness, and are quite worn and over- 
grown with the small lichen which is abundant on the face of the rock. 
Mr. Gilbert Thompson, of the U. 8S. Geological Survey, reports his 
observation of petroglyphs at San Antonio springs, 30 miles east of 
Fort Wingate, New Mexico. The human figure, in various forms, occurs, 
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Fic. 58.—Petroglyphs at Ojo de Benado, New Mexico. 
as well as numerous other characters, strikingly similar to those fre- 
quent in the country farther west occupied by the Moki Indians. The 
peculiarity of these figures is that the outlines are incised and that 
the depressions thus formed are filled with red, blue or white pig- 
ments. The interior of the figures is simply painted with one or more 
of the same colors. 
Figs. 58 and 59 are reproductions of drawings of petroglyphs from 
Ojo de Benado, south of Zuni, New Mexico. The manuscripts which 
onee accompanied them, and which were forwarded to the Bureau of 
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