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  SOUTH 
  AMERICAN 
  INDIANS 
  [B. 
  A. 
  E. 
  Bull. 
  143 
  

  

  carried 
  bows, 
  arrows, 
  and 
  spears." 
  Ant6n 
  Griego 
  says 
  that 
  these 
  

   bearded 
  Indians 
  had 
  a 
  squadron 
  with 
  a 
  line 
  of 
  archers 
  and 
  other 
  

   Indians 
  who 
  carried 
  spears. 
  Their 
  prowess 
  is 
  attested 
  by 
  Juan 
  Cer6n, 
  

   a 
  cleric, 
  who 
  says 
  that 
  they 
  shot 
  Pedro 
  Gonzalez 
  de 
  Prado 
  so 
  full 
  of 
  

   arrows 
  that 
  he 
  "looked 
  like 
  San 
  Sebastian," 
  and 
  that 
  they 
  killed 
  an 
  

   armored 
  horse 
  with 
  5 
  arrows. 
  

  

  BURIAL 
  

  

  Burials 
  were 
  the 
  direct 
  type, 
  without 
  grave 
  offerings. 
  The 
  corpse 
  

   was 
  buried 
  in 
  flexed 
  position, 
  lying 
  on 
  its 
  side. 
  According 
  to 
  some 
  

   trustworthy 
  information, 
  bodies 
  were 
  sometimes 
  interred 
  vertically. 
  

   In 
  one 
  grave, 
  the 
  author 
  found 
  two 
  skeletons 
  with 
  the 
  skulls 
  oriented 
  

   in 
  opposite 
  directions. 
  Within 
  a 
  shelter 
  used 
  as 
  a 
  dwelling 
  were 
  

   human 
  remains 
  which, 
  after 
  burial, 
  had 
  been 
  covered 
  with 
  large 
  rocks; 
  

   the 
  severed 
  head 
  was 
  buried 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  away. 
  Urn 
  burial 
  for 
  

   children 
  or 
  adults 
  is 
  entirely 
  lacking. 
  No 
  true 
  cemeteries 
  were 
  found. 
  

   Graves 
  are 
  isolated 
  and 
  entirely 
  unmarked, 
  and, 
  therefore, 
  are 
  discov- 
  

   ered 
  only 
  by 
  chance. 
  Never 
  more 
  than 
  four 
  or 
  five 
  skeletons 
  were 
  

   grouped 
  together. 
  

  

  ESTHETIC 
  AND 
  RECREATIONAL 
  ACTIVITIES 
  

  

  Art. 
  — 
  The 
  few 
  arts 
  of 
  this 
  area, 
  already 
  mentioned 
  under 
  Manu- 
  

   factures 
  (p. 
  681), 
  are 
  extremely 
  poor 
  and, 
  surprisingly, 
  do 
  not 
  compare 
  

   with 
  those 
  of 
  neighboring 
  peoples, 
  such 
  as 
  tribes 
  of 
  Santiago 
  del 
  Estero 
  

   (this 
  volume, 
  p. 
  655) 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  western 
  Sierras. 
  The 
  most 
  notable 
  

   of 
  these 
  is 
  the 
  modeled 
  figurines, 
  which, 
  though 
  archaic 
  in 
  style, 
  have 
  

   a 
  certain 
  grace. 
  Ceramic 
  decoration 
  is 
  almost 
  too 
  crude 
  to 
  be 
  consid- 
  

   ered 
  art. 
  Pictographs 
  and 
  petroglyphs, 
  however, 
  attained 
  such 
  

   development 
  as 
  to 
  merit 
  special 
  consideration. 
  

  

  Pictographs 
  and 
  Petroglyphs. 
  — 
  In 
  the 
  Sierras 
  of 
  the 
  North 
  and 
  

   especially 
  in 
  the 
  Cerro 
  Colorado 
  are 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  beautiful 
  picto- 
  

   graphs, 
  or 
  rock 
  paintings, 
  of 
  Argentina 
  and 
  perhaps 
  of 
  the 
  continent 
  

   (pi. 
  151, 
  bottom). 
  On 
  the 
  walls 
  and 
  roofs 
  of 
  the 
  shelters 
  and 
  on 
  every 
  

   suitable 
  rock, 
  the 
  natives 
  have 
  left 
  paintings 
  of 
  extraordinary 
  artistic 
  

   and 
  ethnographic 
  value. 
  These 
  paintings 
  were 
  discovered 
  in 
  1903 
  by 
  

   the 
  poet 
  Leopoldo 
  Lugones, 
  but 
  they 
  were 
  first 
  systematically 
  studied 
  

   and 
  published 
  years 
  later 
  by 
  Gardner 
  (1931). 
  Their 
  variety 
  and 
  

   complexity 
  make 
  description 
  difficult. 
  The 
  figures 
  are 
  painted 
  in 
  

   many 
  colors, 
  with 
  red, 
  white, 
  and 
  black 
  predominating. 
  As 
  a 
  whole, 
  

   the 
  rock 
  paintings 
  of 
  C6rdoba 
  differ 
  from 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  

   country. 
  Only 
  those 
  which 
  are 
  geometrical 
  — 
  perhaps 
  highly 
  conven- 
  

   tionalized 
  — 
  are 
  similar 
  to 
  paintings 
  in 
  other 
  areas. 
  The 
  local 
  fauna 
  — 
  

   represented 
  with 
  realistic 
  exactness 
  and 
  beautiful 
  conventionalization 
  

   —is 
  specially 
  noteworthy. 
  The 
  paintings 
  also 
  depict 
  fights 
  between 
  

   natives 
  and 
  Europeans, 
  and 
  they 
  have, 
  therefore, 
  a 
  historical 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  

  

  