LIFE-FOEM m ART. 



Fig. 168. (*) 



This figure (Fig. 168) from Bartlett is here given to show the radical of man, 

 as we have determined it, in the act of driving an animal. 



In some outlines from the Gila region, by the same authority we have a man-like 

 figure with produced vertical associated with one in which it is absent. If, as may be 

 suggested, that the line has a sexual significance, its absence would indicate the com- 

 panion figures to represent female forms. 



Another great difficulty, determining the man-radical is that in countries, where 

 the inhabitants have been under Christian influence, the vertical and transverse lines 

 have originated in crude imitations of the Latin ci'oss. Such influence undoubtedly 

 exists in the design of our Indians, especially among those who have been brought in 

 association with Jesuits. The following signs from Jonathan's Cave, near Fife, 

 Scotland, are certainly very suggestive of the series on p. 333, and we are only 

 deterred from so placing them from the other evidences in the same locality of 

 modern influences. 



Fig. 169. (t) 



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f-n m 



As has already been observed, the position of accessory signs more than their 

 shape determine their significance. 



Of the sign 



(t) 



it would be difficult to prove that it was not a face, and the symmetrical dots eyes, 

 except by comparison with the following from a rock in the same country (Fig. 170) : 



* Bartlett, I. c, I, 206. 



t Simpson, J. Y., Archaic sculpturing of cups, circles, etc., Edinburgh, 1867. 

 X Near Colonia Toviar, A. Fendler, I. c. 



