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bright and fresh, suggesting that they were not all executed at the 
same time. Standing just in advance of the line of cliffs at some 
distance east of the western end of the Serra is a tall, tower-like © 
mass of sandstone painted not only on the base but high up on 
the sides, while the cliffs behind and on both sides are covered 
with figures. All these localities are very conspicuous and some 
of them are so large as to be visible at the distance of more than 
a mile. 
Not far from the eastern end of the Serra there is on top an 
enormous isolated mass of sandstone, the remains of a bed almost 
entirely removed, which mass is distinctly visible from the plain 
below on the northern side. The irregular western wall of this 
mass is covered with figures. 
The drawings of Ereré comprise several classes of objects. The 
most important among these appear to be representations of the 
sun, moon and stars. At the western end of Ereré, on the cliff 
near the top, is a rude circular figure Pl. 4, fig. 17, nearly two 
feet in diameter. The general color is a brownish yellow. In the 
centre is a large ochre red spot, while around the circumference 
runs a broad border of the same color. Some of the civilized 
Indians at Ereré called this the sun, others the moon. 
On a very prominent cliff some distance east of the tower-like 
mass of sandstone above described, is another similar figure about 
three feet in diameter. In this there is a central spot of brick red, 
then a broad zone of a dirty yellow, followed by a zone of brick 
red, outside which is another of a dirty ochre yellow. To the right 
of this are two smaller circular figures, in the upper of which the 
lines and centre are red, the innermost zone being of a dirty 
yellow tint. These figures are situated some ten feet from the foot 
ef the cliff. Similar drawings, composed of two or more COn- 
centric circles with or without. the central spot, occur in great 
numbers at Ereré. I am disposed to think that they are intended 
to represent the moon, since they are not furnished with ray af Ait 
figure, Pl. 4, fig. 2, on the cliff at the western end of the Serra, 
undoubtedly represents this heavenly body.+ Besides the above 
forms there are rayed figures in abundance. Sometimes they con 
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*I found a report afloat in Pará that some of these figures had been mutilated 
Major Continho, Prof. Agassiz’s companion on the Amazonas. The reporti 
the figures are not mutilated. ji 
t Similar figures occur elsewhere. Seeman, Memoirs Anthrop. Soc., London, ho! š 
p. 279, gives two examples, one from Veraguas, New Grenada, another from England. 
