118 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
resemblance to Prof. Simpson’s fifth type of cup stones. A copy of the group in 
question was made and published by Lieut. J. W. Gunnison, in The Mormons or 
Latter-Day Saints, ete., Philadelphia, 1853, p. 63. The illustration is taken from 
Bancroft’s Native Races (Vol. Iv, p. 717). In accordance with Lieut. Gunnison’s 
design, the position of the grotesque human figure is changed to the left of the con- 
centric circle. He also says that the Mormon leaders made this aboriginal inserip- 
tion subservient to their religion by giving the following translation of it: ‘I, 
Mahanti, the second king of the Lamanites, in five valleys of the mountains, make 
this record in the twelve hundredth year since we came out of Jerusalem. And I 
have three sons gone to the south country to live by hunting antelope and deer.” 
* * * Schooleraft attempts (Vol. ur, p. 494) something like an interpretation 
which appears to me fanciful anf unsatisfactory. 
Fic. 81.—Petroglyphs near Manti, Utah. 
The following extract is made from The Shinumos by F. S. Dellen- 
baugh (a). 
Some of the least disintegrated ruins are situated on the Colorado river, only 
only a short distance below the mouth of the Dirty Devil river. * * * A level 
shelf varying from about 6 to 10 feet in width ran along for 150 feet or more. In most 
places the rocks above protruded as far as the edge of the lower rocks, sometimes 
farther, thus leaving a sort of gallery, generally 7 or 8 feet high. Walls that ex- 
tended to the roof had been built along the outer edge of the natural floor, and the 
inclosed space being subdivided by stone partitions to suit the convenience of the 
Fic, 82.—Petroglyphs on Colorado river, Utah. 
builders, the whole formed a series of rather comfortable rooms or houses. The back 
walls of the houses—the natural rock—had on them many groups of hieroglyphies, ~ 
and farther along where there was no roof rock at all the vertical faces had been 
inscribed with seeming great care. Some of the sheltered groups were painted in 
various dull colors, but most of them were chiseled. 
The figure [82] givesa chiseled group. It iseasy to see that these are signs of no low 
order. Considering their great age, their exposure, many of the delicate touches 
must be obliterated. 
