MALLERY. ] PETROGLYPHS IN WYOMING. 129 
Fig. 95, from the same locality and authority, was also interpreted by 
the Shoshoni and Banak. It appears from their description that a 
Blackfoot had attacked the habitation of some of his own people. The 
right-hand upper figure represents his horse, with the lance suspended 
from the side. The lower figure illustrates the log house built against 
a stream. The dots are the prints of the horse’s hoofs, while the two 
lines running outward from the upper inclosure show that two thrusts 
of the lance were made over the wall of the house, thus killing the 
occupant and securing two bows and five arrows, as represented in the 
left-hand group. The right-hand figure of that group shows the hand 
raised in the attitude of making the gesture for kill. 
The Blackfeet, according to the interpreters, were the only Indians 
in the locality mentioned who constructed log houses, and therefore 
the drawing becomes additionally interesting, as an attempt appears 
to have been made to illustrate the crossing of the logs at the corners, 
the gesture for which (log house) is as follows: 
Both hands are held edgewise before the body, palms facing, spread 
the fingers, and place those of one hand into the spaces between those 
of the other, so that the tips of each protrude about an inch beyond. 
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Fic. 95.—Petroglyphs in Wind river valley, Wyoming. 
Another and more important petroglyph was discovered on Little 
Popo-Agie, northwestern Wyoming, by members of Capt. Jones’s party 
in 1873. The glyphs are upon a neariy vertical wall of the yellow 
sandstone in the rear of Murphy’s ranch, and appear to be of some 
antiquity. Further remarks, with specimens of the characters, are 
presented below in this paper. (See Fig. 1091.) 
Dr. William H. Corbusier, U. 8S. Army, in a letter to the writer, men- 
tions the discovery of drawings on a sandstone rock near the head- 
waters of Sage creek, in the vicinity of Fort Washakie, Wyoming, and 
gives a copy which is presented as Fig. 96. Dr. Corbusier remarks 
that neither the Shoshoni nor the Arapaho Indians know who made the 
drawings. The two chief figures appear to be those of the human form, 
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