160 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Mr. R. A. Philippi, of Santiago, a corresponding member, made a 
communication to the Berliner Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologie, session 
Fic, 128.—Sculptured bowlder in Chile. 
of January 19, 1876, page 38, from which the following is extracted and 
translated : 
I made a visit to the valley ‘‘Cajon de los Cipreses” in order to see the glacier 
giving rise to the Rio de los Cipreses, a tributary of the Cachapoal, and on that occa- 
sion had a cursory view of a rock with some pictures. I send you herewith a draw- 
ing of the rock and some of the figures cut on it. The rock, a kind of greenstone, 
lies at an altitude of about 5,000 feet above sea level, and the surface covered with 
figures, gently inclined down to the ground, may be 8 feet long and 5 or 6 feet high. 
The lines are about 4 mm. broad and 1 to 4mm.deep. The carved figures on the stone 
are without any sort of order. When I spoke before a meeting of our faculty of physi- 
cal and mathematical sciences concerning this stone which the shepherds of the re- 
gion called piedra marcada, I learned that similar stones with carved figures are 
found in various places. 
The figure mentioned is here reproduced as Fig. 12 
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FiG. 129.—Petroglyph in Cajon de los Cipreses, Chile. 
