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
_Tiverton rocks_ [op. cit. _d_].--Their situation may be thus
known: by tracing along the east side of the map of Rhode Island
until you strike Tiverton, and then following along to the southwest
extremity of that town, the Indian name Puncoteast, also the English
names Almy and High Hill, will be seen. The inscriptions are on
masses of Graywacke. * * * We can only state they were occupied with
some kind of characters.
These two inscriptions are pictured, op. cit., Table XIII.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
Mr. T. H. Lewis (_c_), gives a description of Fig. 79 as follows:
This bowlder is on a high terrace on the west side of the
Minnesota river, 1-1/2 miles south of Browns valley, and is in
Roberts county, South Dakota. It is oblong in form, being 3-1/2 feet
in length, 2 feet in width, and is firmly imbedded in the ground.
Of the characters _a_ and _b_ are undoubtedly tortoises; _c_
is probably intended to represent a bird track; _d_ represents a
man, and is similar to the one at Browns valley, Minnesota, [Fig.
51, supra;] _e_ is a nondescript of unusual form; _f_ is apparently
intended to represent a headless bird, in that respect greatly
resembling certain earthen effigies in the regions to the southeast.
The figures are about one-fourth of an inch in depth and very
smooth, excepting along their edges, which roughness is caused by a
slight unevenness of the surface of the bowlder.
The same authority, op. cit., describes Fig. 79, _g_.
[Illustration: FIG. 79.--Petroglyphs in Roberts county, South Dakota.]
This bowlder, 4 miles northwest of Browns valley, Minnesota, is
in Roberts county, South Dakota.
The figures here represented are roughly pecked into the stone,
and were never finished; for the grooves that form the pictograph
on other bowlders in this region have been rubbed until they are
perfectly smooth. The face of the bowlder upon which these occur is
about 2 feet long and 1-1/2 feet in width.
TENNESSEE.
Mr. John Haywood (_a_) gives the following account:
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