MALLERY.] THUNDER-BIRDS. 487 
Fig. 683, one of the drawings from the Kejimkoujik rocks of Nova 
Scotia, may be compared with the other designs of the thunder-bird 
and also with the Ojibwa type of device for woman. 
As regards the head, which appears to have a non- 
human form, it may also be compared with the many 
totemic designations in Chapter x11, on Totems, 
Titles, and Names. 
Mareano (d), describing Fig. 684, reports: 
At Boca del Infierno (mouth of hell), on a plain, there are 
found stones, separated from each other hy spaces of 7 meters, 
on which are found inscriptions nearly a centimeter in depth. 
One of them represents a great bird similar to those which 
the Oyampis (Crevaux) are in the habit of drawing. On its 
left shoulder are seen three concentric circles arranged like 
those that form the eyes of the jaguars of Calcara. This figure 
is often reproduced in Vene eer Guiana and beyond the Ese- 
quibo. The bird is united at the right by a double connecting 
stroke with another which is incomplete and much smaller. 
- Furthermore, three small circles are seen below the left wing; 
three others, farther apart, separate its right wing from the 
neck of the lower bird. The triangles which form the breast 
and the tail of the two birds are worthy of note. 
Fia. 683.—Miemae thun 
der-bird, 
Mr. A. Ernst ()) describes the same figure: 
From the same place (*‘ Boca del Infierno,” a rapid of the 
Orinoco, 35 kilometers below the mouth of the Caura) is easily 
recognized a rough representation of two birds; from the 
feathers of the larger one water seems to be dropping; above, 
to the right, is seen a picture of the sun, This may be sym- 
bolic, and would then remind one of the representation of the 
wind and rain gods on the ruins of Central America. 
Fia. 684.—Venezuelan 
thunder-bird. 
Fig. 685 is a copy of four specimens of Indian workmanship in the 
collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The 
objects are depicted by porcupine quills poced on pieces of birch bark, 
and represent various forms of the 
thunder-bird. The specimens are re- 
ported as having been obtained from a 
northwestern tribe, which may safely be 
designated as the Ojibwa, because the 
figures relate to one of the most import- 
ant mythic animals of that tribe, and 
also beeause birch bark is used, a ma- 
terial exceedingly scarce in the country 
of the Sioux, among whom also the 
thunder-bird has a prominent religious 
position. 
a, Made of neutral-tinted quills upon Fra. 685.—Ojibwa thunder-bird. 
yellow bark, as is also b, which is without the projecting pieces to des- 
