THE POZO STONE. 415 



The connected rings are probably camps, I feel no other 

 explanation can be given of their meaning on the Pozo Stone, there 

 are altogether, of single and compound circles, nearly a score on the 

 short inscription on the stone, and I think, that the keenest advocate, 

 of circles symbolizing suns and gods, must feel so many would be 

 superfluous, and would render any legend illegible. The deer 

 probably means a land of plenty. The vicuna, which would be 

 used as the beast of burden, is on the stone, the vehicle, too, by 

 which the artist conveys expressions of peace and disturbance ; 

 three of the five are peaceful, the remaining two express that mode 

 of anger which is so characteristic of the llama family ; the mouth 

 opened in spitting and the turned head are faithfully copied. 



I read on this first panel of the legend that two large tribes 

 [two circles] in alliance [the loop between] were ruled over by a 

 great King [separate circle] who called together all his people [feet 

 of man and child] so that they might travel [feet] to a land of 

 plenty [large deer], in a southerly direction [two square incisions 

 touching at the corner], and that they must be faithful [club with 

 two stones attached, the symbol of stability], and that the great 

 spirit [hawk on circle] would protect them. 



The second panel begins with an ordinary vicuna, between 

 which and a spitting disturbed vicuna is a grotesque figure of a man 

 with a head-dress; taking the first vicuna as peace and the second 

 one as vexation and worry, it seems reasonable to look on this 

 human character as that of an enemy. Beyond him are several 

 circles, and then one of the most, if not the most important incision 

 on the stone. This is a dotted circle, from which runs a deeply 

 incised path, with a small zigzag path running off it 5 in the 

 pictorial writing of the North American Indians, such a line would 

 signify a twisted or tortuous way. The main line ends by touching 

 a deer. Proceeding up the stone, from the self-same dotted circle, 

 runs a sinuous line with thickenings in it, the two lines enclose a 

 spitting vicuna, particularly spiteful in position. If my reading be 

 correct, it verifies the circles as encampments, for here the camp 

 is broken up, the smaller party going on one path, and the larger 

 party by another, along which there is not a single circle. Within 

 these paths is the spiteful vicuna. 



