MALLERY.] BRAZILIAN PETROGLYPHS. 689 
Dr. A. Ernst in Verhandl. der Berliner, Anthrop. Gesell. (c) gives a 
description of Fig. 1106, translated and condensed as follows: 
The rock on which the petroglyph is carved is 41 kilometers WSW. of Caracas, 
and 27 kilometers almost due north of La Victoria, in the coast mountains of Vene- 
zuela. The petroglyph is found on two large stones lying side by side and leaning 
against other blocks of leptinite, though resembling sandstone. The length of the 
two stones is 3.5 m., theirheight2m. The stones lie beside the road from the colony 
of Tovar to La Maya, on the border of a clearing somewhat inclined southward not 
far from the woods. The surface is turned south. Concerning the meaning of the 
very fragmentary figures I can not even express a conjecture. 
Araripe (¢) furnishes the following description of Fig. 1107: 
In the district of Inhamun, on the road from Carrapateira to Cracar4, at a dis- 
tance of half a league, following a footpath which branches off to the left, is a small 
lake called Arneiros, near which is a heap of round and long stones; on one of the 
round ones is an inscription, here given in the order in which the figures appear, on 
the face toward the north, engraved with a pointed instrument, the characters being 
covered with red paint. Ee 
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Fic. 1107.—Brazilian petroglyphs. 
HULU 
The same authority, p. 231, gives the following description of the 
lower group in Fig. 1108. It is called Indian writing in Vora, in Fax- 
ina, province of Sao Paulo. 
From a rock which is more than 40 meters in height, a large mass has been de- 
tached leaving a greater inclination of 10 meters. This incline, together with the 
wall formed by the detached-portion, constitutes a sheltered place which was used 
by the Indians as a resting place for their dead. 
On the walls of this grotto are figures engraved in the stone and painted with 
‘‘jndellible” colors in red and black. It would seem that the Indians had engraved 
in these figures the history of the tribe. The designs are as follows: 
A human figure with ornaments of feathers on the head and neck; a palm tree 
rudely engraved and painted; a number of circular holes, 24 or more or less, in a 
straight line; a circle with a diameter of 15 inches, having dentated lines on the 
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