Picture-Writing of the American Indians: Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822Mallery, Garrick
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Picture-Writing of the American Indians: Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822
Mallery, Garrick
Picture-writing, Indian
Prof. E. D. Cope (_a_) gives a copy of figures which he found on the
side of a ravine near Abiquiu, on the river Chama. They are cut in
Jurassic sandstone of medium hardness, and are quite worn and overgrown
with the small lichen which is abundant on the face of the rock.
Mr. Gilbert Thompson, of the U. S. Geological Survey, reports his
observation of petroglyphs at San Antonio springs, 30 miles east of
Fort Wingate, New Mexico. The human figure, in various forms, occurs,
as well as numerous other characters, strikingly similar to those
frequent in the country farther west occupied by the Moki Indians. The
peculiarity of these figures is that the outlines are incised and that
the depressions thus formed are filled with red, blue or white pigments.
The interior of the figures is simply painted with one or more of the
same colors.
Figs. 58 and 59 are reproductions of drawings of petroglyphs from
Ojo de Benado, south of Zuñi, New Mexico. The manuscripts which once
accompanied them, and which were forwarded to the Bureau of Ethnology
in the usual official manner, have become separated from the sketches,
and on those there are no indications of the collectors’ names.
[Illustration: FIG. 58.--Petroglyphs at Ojo de Benado, New Mexico.]
The characters are very like others from several localities in the
territory and in the adjacent region. The type is that of the Pueblos
generally.
Mr. Bandelier, in conversation, reported having seen and sketched a
petroglyph at Nambe, in a canyon about 2 miles east of the pueblo, also
another at Cueva Pintada, about 17 miles by the trail northwest of
Cochiti.
[Illustration: FIG. 59.--Petroglyphs at Ojo de Benado, New Mexico.]
NEW YORK.
The following is extracted from Schoolcraft (_c_):
There is a pictographic Indian inscription [now obliterated]
in the valley of the Hudson, above the Highlands, which from
its antiquity and character appears to denote the era of the
introduction of firearms and gunpowder among the aboriginal tribes
of that valley. This era, from the well-known historical events of
the contemporaneous settlement of New Netherlands and New France,
may be with general accuracy placed between the years 1609, the
date of Hudson’s ascent of that stream above the Highlands, and the
opening of the Indian trade with the Iroquois at the present site of
Albany, by the erection of Fort Orange, in 1614. * * *
In a map published at Amsterdam, in Holland, in 1659, the
country, for some distance both above and below Esopus creek, is
delineated as inhabited by the Waranawankongs, who were a totemic
division or enlarged family clan of the Mohikinder. They spoke a
well-characterized dialect of the Mohigan, and have left numerous
geographical names on the streams and physical peculiarities of that
part of the river coast quite to and above Coxsackie. The language
is Algonquin.
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