10 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Indian Color Names. 

 By ALBERT S. GATSCHET. 



Mr. Gatschet's paper contained an enumeration of twenty 

 or twenty-five color-adjectives in the following Indian lan- 

 guages: Klamath of Oregon, Nez Perce, Shawnee, Atfalati 

 branch of the Kalapuyan family, Michopdo, of California, 

 Santee, of the Dakotan stock, and Makokian. 



The conclusions arrived at were, that often in the dialects 

 considered no real word for color, in the abstract, exists ; that 

 the Indians use as many names, and, therefore, recognize as 

 many color distinctions as we do ; that many of their names, 

 however, designate checkered or medley colors; that yellow 

 and green sometimes coincide, both being referred to the 

 color of the grass; that blue and green sometimes coincide; 

 and, finally, that Indians often start from other principles 

 than ours in naming their colors. 



SIXTH REGULAR MEETING. 



May 20, 1879. 



Indian Pictographs in New Mexico. 

 By MILES ROCK. 



Nineteen of the more distinct etchings presented by Dr. 

 Rock were found and copied in September, 1878, at the west 

 entrance of Cook's Canon, about nine miles west of old Fort 

 Cummings, in Grant County, southwestern New Mexico. 



The}^ were found on the perpendicular faces of an outcrop 

 of sandstone at the top of a foot-hill of which Cook's Peak 

 is the highest point. There were a great many symbols in 

 all stages of obliteration by weathering. The most distinct- 

 and deepest cut were two Greek crosses, each surrounded by 

 a line fringing the arm at each angle. There was also a 

 Roman cross supported by two braces, a human face, a jack- 

 rabbit, four five-toed foot-marks, a running snake, and per- 



