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
The character of the lower right-hand corner was at one time as
clearly cut as we represent it, some of the edges being yet clear
and distinct.
At the rapid of Madeira there were a number of circles similar
to 15 and 16 at Ribeiráo. On a ridge of rocks in the middle of the
river, just above Larges rapids, are figures, and we had only time
to sketch one, Fig. 118.
At Pao Grande we had a better harvest, showing evidently a later
period than the former. One could easily believe these were made at
the time of the Spanish conquest, the anchors, shields, and hearts
being so often found in Spanish religious rites. Without doubt these
were notices for navigators, as they were only out of water and seen
when that passage was dangerous. Where projecting points of rock
gave a face both up and down stream the same figure was on both
faces. These rocks are syenitic granite and are cut to a depth of a
half inch.
Fig. 119 is a reproduction of the copy published.
[Illustration: FIG. 119.--Petroglyphs at Pao Grande, Brazil.]
Senhor Tristão de Alencar Araripe (_a_) gives a large number
of descriptions with illustrations, a selection of which, with
translations, is as follows:
In the province of Ceará district of Inhamun, on the plantation
of Carrapateira, is a small hill (or mound). On the face of one of
its rocks, on the eastern side, near the edge of the road, is the
inscription given in Fig. 120 painted in red.
[Illustration: FIG. 120.--Petroglyph in Ceará, Brazil.]
In the district of Inhamun, on the plantation of Carrapateira,
in Morcego, on the top of a mound, is a semicircular stone bearing
on the face toward the mound the four characters which appear in
Fig. 121.
[Illustration: FIG. 121.--Petroglyph in Morcego, Brazil.]
In Inhamun, on the plantation of Carrapateira, in Morcego, is a
large stone mound, the stones being piled up in a form of a tower;
and in the inside of this tower, on the south or southwest side, are
the characters given in Fig. 122 painted in bright, cochineal color.
[Illustration: FIG. 122.--Petroglyphs in Morcego, Brazil.]
Near the road from Cracará to Favelas, Inhamun, is a large
rock, on the face of which, at the top of the western side, is the
inscription [given on the upper part of Fig. 123,] all in red paint,
as is also that following.
[Illustration: FIG. 123.--Petroglyphs in Inhamun, Brazil.]
The under part of this rock forms a shelter, and on the roof of
this shelter are all the remaining characters of the figure.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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