114 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
SOUTH DAKOTA. 
Mr. T. H. Lewis (¢), gives a description of Fig. 79 as follows: 
This bowlder is on a high terrace on the west side of the Minnesota river, 1} miles 
south of Browns valley, and is in Roberts county, South Dakota. It is oblong in 
form, being 3} feet in length, 2 feet in width, and is firmly imbedded in the ground. 
Of the characters a and b are undoubtedly tortoises; c is probably intended to repre- 
sent a bird track; d represents a man, and is similar to the one at Browns valley, 
Minnesota, [Fig. 51,supra;] eis a nondescript of unusual form; f is apparently in- 
tended to represent a headless bird, in that respect greatly resembling certain earthen 
effigies in the regions to the southeast. 
The figures are about one-fourth of an inch in depth and very smooth, excepting 
along their edges, which roughness is caused by aslight unevenness of the surface 
of the bowlder. 
The same authority, op. cit., describes Fig. 79, g. 
This bowlder, 4 miles northwest of Browns valley, Minnesota, is in Roberts county, 
South Dakota. 
The figures here represented are roughly pecked into the stone, and were never 
finished; for the grooves that form the pictograph on other bowlders in this region 
have been rubbed until they are perfectly smooth. The face of the bowlder upon 
which these occur is about 2 feet long and 1} feet in width. 
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Fic. 79.—Petroglyphs in Roberts county, South Dakota. 
TENNESSEE. 
Mr, John Haywood (a) gives the following account: 
About 2 miles below the road which crosses the Harpeth river from Nashville to 
Charlotte is a large mound 30 or 40 feet high. About 6 miles from it is a large rock, 
on the side of the river, with a perpendicular face of 70 or 80 feet altitude. On it, 
below the top some distance and on the side, are painted the sun and moon in yel- 
low colors, which have not faded since the white people first knew it. The figure 
of the sun is 6 feet in diameter; that of the moon is of the old moon. The sun and 
moon are also painted on a high rock on the side of the Cumberland river, in a spot 
which several ladders placed upon each other could not reach, and which is also in- 
accessible except by ropes let down the summit of the rock to the place where the 
painting was performed. * * * The sun is also painted on a high rock on the~ 
side of the Cumberland river, 6 or 7 miles below Clarksville; and it is said to be 
painted also at the junction of the Holston and French Broad rivers, above Knox: 
ville, in East Tennessee; also on Duck river, below the bend called the Devil’s El- 
bow, on the west side of the river, ona bluff; and on a perpendicular flat rock facing 
the river, 20 feet below the top of the bluff and 60 above the water, out of which the 
rock rises, is the painted representation of the sun in red and yellow colors, 6 feet: 
