116 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
ing on the hands and knees 15 or 20 feet up asteep rock. Over it projects a gigantic 
bowlder, which, resting on or wedged between other rocks, leaves a space of about 4 
feet above the surface of the water. On the under side of this bowlder are fantastic 
designs in red paint, which could only have been made by persons lying on their 
backs in this cool and sheltered spot. 
Ir. Charles Hallock, of Washington, District of Columbia, gives in- 
formation that there is a locality termed the Painted caves, ‘on the 
Rio Grande, near Devil’s river, in Crockett county, Texas, on the line 
of the ‘Sunset’ railroad. Here the rock is gray limestone and the petro- 
glyphs are for the most part sculptured. They are in great variety, 
from a manifest antiquity to the most recent date; for these cliff eay- 
erns have been from time immemorial the refuge and resort of all sorts 
of wayfarers, marauders, and adventurers, who have painted, cut, and 
carved in every geometrical and grotesque form imaginable.” 
Fa, 80,—Petroglyphs near El Paso, Texas. 
UTAH. 
Carvings and paintings on rocks are found in such numbers in the 
southern interior of Utah that a locality there has been named Picto- 
graph rocks. 
Mr. G. K. Gilbert, of the U. S. Geological Survey, collected in 1875 
a number of copies of inscriptions in Temple creek canyon, southeastern 
Utah, and noted their finding as follows: 
The drawings were found only on the northeast wall of the canyon, where it cuts 
the Vermillion cliff sandstone. The chief parts are etched, apparently by pounding 
with a sharp point. The outline of a figure is usually more deeply cut than the 
body. Other marks are produced by rubbing or scraping, and still others by laying 
on colors. Some, not all, of the colors are accompanied by a rubbed appearance, as 
though the material had been a dry chalk. 
I could discover no tools at the foot of the wall, only fragments of pottery, flints, 
and a metate. 
Several fallen blocks of sandstone have rubbed depressions that may have been 
