126 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
cations, but they rather appear to be a record of a hunting party, and 
to designate the kinds of game abounding in the region. 
Mr. L. V. McWhorter reports pictographs in a cave near Berlin, Lewis 
county, West Virginia. No details are given. 
A petroglyph found in a rock shelter in West Virginia is also pre- 
sented in Pl, XXXI. 
WISCONSIN. 
A large number of glyphs are incised on the face of a rock near 
Odanah, now a village of the Ojibwa Indians, 12 miles northeast from 
Ashland, on the south shore of lake Superior, near its western extrem- 
ity. The characters were easily cut on the soft stone, so were also 
easily worn by the weather, and in 1887 were nearly indistinguishable. 
Many of them appeared to be figures of birds. An old Ojibwa Indian 
in the vicinity told the present writer that the site of the rock was 
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Fic. 91.—Petroglyphs in Brown’s cave, Wisconsin. 
formerly a well-known halting place and rendezvous, and that on the 
arrival of a party, or even of a single individual, the appropriate to- 
temic mark or marks were cut on the rock, much as white men register 
their names at a hotel. 
The Pictured cave of La Crosse valley, called Brown’s cave, is de- 
scribed by Rev. Edward Brown (a) as follows: 
This curious cavern is situated in the town of Barre, 4 miles from West Salem and 
8 miles from LaCrosse. *~ * ~* 
Before the landslide it was an open shelter cavern, 15 feet wide at the opening and 
7 feet at the back end; greatest width, 16 feet: average, 13; length, 30 feet; height, ~ 
13 feet, and depth of excavation after clearing out the sand of the landslide, 5 feet. 
The pictures are mostly of the rudest kind, but differing in degree of skill. Except 
several bisons, a lynx, rabbit, otter, badger, elk, and heron, it is perhaps impossible 
to determine with certainty what were intended or whether they represented large 
or small animals, no regard being had to their relative sizes. 
(Examples of the figures are here presented as Fig. 91.] 
