MALLERY.] BRAZILIAN PETROGLYPHS. 691 
introduced here for convenient comparison with characters in the lower 
group of this figure, and also with others in Figs. 1097 and 1107. 
Dr. Ladislau Netto (c) gives an account of characters copied from the 
inscriptions of Cachoeira Savarete, in the valley of the Rio Negro, here 
reproduced as Fig. 1109. They represent men and animals, concentric 
circles, double spirals, and other figures of indefinite form. The design 
in the left hand of the middle line evidently represents a group of men 
gathered and drawn up like soldiers in a platoon. 
Fic. 1110.—Brazilian petroglyphs. 
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The same authority, p. 552, furnishes characters copied from rocks 
near the villa of Moura in the valley of the Rio Negro, here reproduced 
as Fig. 1110. They represent a series of figures on which Dr. Netto 
remarks as follows: 
It is singular how frequent are these figures of circles two by two, one of which 
seems to simulate one of the meanders that in a measure represent the form of the 
Buddhie cross. This character, represented by the double cross, is very common in 
many American inscriptions. It probably signifies some idea which has nothing to 
do with that of nandyavarta. 
The same authority, p. 522, gives carvings copied from the rocks of 
the banks of the Rio Negro, from 
Moura to the city of Manaus, some 
of which are reproduced as Fig. 
1111. The groupon the left Dr. Net- 
to believes to represent a crowned 
chief, having by his side a figure 
which may represent either the sun 
or the moon in motion, but which, 
were it carved by civilized men, 
would suggest nothing more re- 
markable than a large compass. Fi. 1111.—Brazilian petroglyphs. 
The same authority, p. 553, presents characters copied from stones 
on the banks of the Rio Negro, Brazil, here reproduced as Fig. 1112. 
They are rather sketches or vague tracings and attempts at drawing 
than definite characters. The human heads found in most of the figures 
observed at this locality resemble the heads 
&\ carved in the inscriptions of Central Amer- 
te ica and on the banks of the Colorado river. 
The left-hand character, which Lere appears 
Fic. 1112.—Brazilian pictograph, to be simply a rude drawing of a nose and 
