128 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
The figures are not mere outlines, but intaglio, varying in depth from 
a quarter of an inch to fully 1 inch. Although the surface of the rock 
is rough the intaglios were rubbed perfectly smooth after they had been 
engraved by pecking or cutting. 
WYOMING. 
Several pictographs in Wyoming are described by Capt. William A. 
Jones, U. S. Army (a). They are reproduced here as Figs. 93, 94, 
and 95. 
Fig. 93, found in the Wind river valley, Wyoming, was interpreted by 
members of a Shoshoni and Banak delegation to Washington in 1880 
as ‘an Indian killed another.” The latter is very roughly delineated 
in the horizontal figure, but is also represented by the line under the 
hand of the upright figure, meaning the same dead person. At the 
right is the scalp taken and the two feathers showing the dead war- 
riov’s rank. The arm nearest the prostrate foe shows the gesture for 
killed; concept, to put down, flat. 
Fig. 93.—Petroglyph in Wind river valley, Wyoming. 
The same gesture appears in Fig. 94, from the same authority and 
locality. Thescalpis here held forth, and the numeral (1) is indicated 
by the lowest stroke. 
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Fia. 94.—Petroglyph in Wind river valley, Wyoming. 
