PICTOGRAPHS. 
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between the edge of the Llano Estacado and the Canadian. The stream flows through a gorge, 
upon one side of which a shelving sandstone roclc forms a sort of cave. The roof is covered 
with paintings, some evidently ancient, and beneath are innumerable carvings of footprints, 
animals, and symmetrical lines. Fac-similes of a portion of them may be found in plates 28, 
29, and 30. 
Plate 28. 
Pictographs at Rocky Dell creek. 
Fig. 1 is much defaced, and appears to be very old. It occupies a conspicuous part of the 
■rock.. The figure is naked, and to the head are appended circles, as if to represent enormous 
ears. In one hand is a huge club, and in the other a sword. The colors used are red, black, 
and white. 
Fig. 2 is of the same period; a representation of some superior being, with wings, perhaps 
to denote spirituality, and a hand, signifying that he is the creator of the sun, which appears 
issuing from it. He stands upon the back of an alligator, but the latter appears to be of later 
origin. 
The colors of Ho, 3* are dim, and many of the details obliterated, giving room for Imagina¬ 
tion to till up the details to her own satisfaction. This series, more than the others, seems to 
represent a chain of historical events, being embraced by serpentine lines. First is a rude 
n The sketches here referred to have been lost. Tire relative positions of others are slightly changed. 
