194 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
to mind the so-called ‘‘Ogham characters.” These ‘ heads” are succeeded by scor- 
pion-like or branched and other fantastic figures. The top of the stone and the other 
sides are covered with a great number of concentric rings and ovals, crossed by 
lines. It is especially these which bear so striking a resemblance to the Northum- 
brian characters. 
Fig. 151 presents five selected characters from the rock mentioned: 
« attached to the respective numbers always refers to the Chiriqui and 
IG, 151.—Cup sculptures in Chiriqui. 
b to the British type of the several designs; la and 1b represent radi- 
ant suns; 2a and 2b show several grooves, radiating from an outer arch, 
resembling, as Dr. Seeman thinks, the Ogham characters; 3a and 3b 
show the completely closed concentric circles; 4a and 4b show how the 
various characters are connected by lines; 5a and 5) exhibit the groove 
or outlet of the circle. 
Mr. G. H. Kinahan, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute of 
Great Britain and Ireland, 1889, p. 171, gives an account of Barnes’s: 
Inscribed Dallaus, County Donegal, Ireland. One of his figures bears 
four cups joined together by lines forming a cross. The remainder of 
the illustrations consist of concentric rings and cups resembling others 
already figured in this paper. 
