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the finding of petroglyphs in Rowe canyon, one-half mile from the base 
of Bradshaw mountain, Arizona. The characters are pecked upon its 
vertical wall of hard porphyry, covering a space between 12 or 15 feet 
in length and about 30 feet above the surface of the earth. They con- 
sist of human figures with outstretched arms, apparently driving ani- 
mals resembling sheep or goats, while at the head of the procession 
appears the figure of a bear. The explanation given seems to be < 
notification to Indian herders that in going through the canyon they 
should be careful to guard against bears or possibly other dangerous 
animals, as the trail or canyon leads down to some water tanks where 
the herders may habitually have driven the stock. 
D’Albertis (b) mentions of the Papuans that a warning not to enter a 
dwelling is made by erecting outside of it a stick, on the top of which 
is a piece of bark or a cocoanut, and in Yule island these warnings or 
taboo sticks are furnished with stone heads. 
When a Tartar shaman wished to be undisturbed he placed a dried 
goat’s-head, with its prominent horns, over a wooden peg outside of his 
tent and then dropped the curtain. No one would dare to venture in. 
The following is quoted from Franz Keller (b): 
In the immense primeval forests, extending between the Ivahy and the Paraua- 
panama, the Parana and the Tibagy, the rich hunting grounds of numerous Coroado 
hordes, one frequently encounters, chiefly near forsaken palm sheds, a strange col- 
lection of objects hung up between the trees on thin cords or cipdés, such as little 
pieces of wood, feathers, bones, and the claws and jaws of different animals. 
In the opinion of those well versed in Indian lore these hieroglyphs are designed 
as epistles to other members of the tribe regarding the produce of the chase, the 
number and stay of the huntsmen, domestic intelligence, and the like; but this 
strange kind of composition, reminding one of the quippus (knotted cords), of the 
old Peruvians, has not yet been quite unraveled, though it is desirable that it should 
be, for the naive son of the woods also uses it sometimes in his intercourse with the 
white man. 
Settlers in this country, on going in the morning to look after their very primitive 
mills near their cottages, have frequently discovered them going bravely, but bruis- 
ing pebbles instead of the maize grains, while on the floor of the open shed names 
and purposes of the unwelcome nocturnal visitors have been legibly written in the 
sand. * Among the well-drawn zigzag lines were inserted the magnificent long tail 
feathers of the red and blue macaw, which are generally used by the Coroados for 
their arrows; and, as these are the symbols of war and night attacks, the whole was 
probably meant for a warning and admonition ad hominem: ‘Take up your bundle 
and go or beware of our arrows.” 
