LIFE-FORM IN ART. 



337 



Fiff. 163. 



An Algonqiiin Rock-carving.* 



a — Algonquin sign of man. 



b — Anthropoid (?) . 



c— Anthropoid of the type-figured. 



d — An unfinished, or an effaced figure. 



e— Turtle. 



g — Hand. 



/i — Unknown. 



Fio-. 164. 



If such be o;rantecl the above si^n (Fi^-. 164) from a rock in Kansas will be placed 

 in the same group. The entire absence of Aztec-like signs in such a series of 

 pictographs and inscriptions is suggestive. 



The same cannot be said of some other inscriptions, as for example the Parowan 

 inscription in Utah. Here amid signs suggestive of influence which the Aztec people, 

 or the unknown South American tribes had in common, appear others such as Fig. 



Fiff. 165. 



105, which so intimately resembles the genuine Algonquin, that we can have no 

 doubt of their identity. Here we have, we may say, a modern savage making 



* Squier's Ancient Monuments, Smithson. Coiit., vol. I, 298. 



f Indian Inscription Rock at Indian Cave, on Mulberry Creek, Kansas. (From i^hotograpli, by A. Gordon, 

 Washington, D. C.) 



