The Shoshonean is one of the stocks still extant in that and more northerly regions, and spreads far south to the lakes of Mexico. It exists to-day in several stages, the Mexican or Nahuatl, the Moki or Hopi, and the numerous bands of Utes.[156] Other stocks probably had equal variation in culture within their ranks, this variation being sometimes due to the absorption, as in the case of the Navajos, of a more cultured tribe. Many of these tribes did no carving whatever, and the region of our South-west is poor in this sort of remains. The Pueblos, while possessing other artistic talents of a high order, do not seem to have done much in the line of carving. They execute the ordinary fetiches with little or no shape, and they also produce a kind of small doll for the children and some that are used in ceremonies, figure page 178, but all these, and all the masks in ceremonies, are fearful things to look upon, bearing little or no resemblance to anything human; shapeless, botched up masses of hideousness, usually not carved or modelled, but built up out of various stuffs. Some of them model effigies in earthenware, but these attempts do not amount to much. I have never seen any wood carving, from this region, worth mentioning. A. M. Stephen made a sketch of two figures in wood with small knots or horns called the Alosaka, which I copied, but they are primitive to the last degree. These figures were about four feet high, and were of cottonwood, apparently very old. Figures above. They were discovered by accident in a cave near the ruins of Awatuwi and removed. When the loss was learned by the Moki they requested the return of the images, which was granted, and they have not been seen since, nor does anyone outside of the custodians, or at least no white man, know where they are. Around the Moki towns I saw not a single attempt at rock carving, nor do I remember in extensive journeys over the South-western region ever seeing any relief carving whatever. Rock scratchings, erroneously termed “etchings” by many writers on these subjects, I have seen in great abundance, but not an attempt at sculpture worth noticing. There may, however, in some of the villages, be carvings nevertheless. Governor Prince found at a ruin near Cochiti a number of rudely formed stone figures of human shape. Nearby there are two panthers carved life size in the tufa which forms the surface rock of the locality. They “lie side by side,” says Bandelier, “representing the animals as crouching with tails extended, and their heads pointing to the east.”[157] Their length is six feet, one third of this being tail. The height is two feet and the breadth across the shoulders fourteen inches, and across the rump seventeen inches. They are about twenty-two inches apart. Around them is an irregular pentagonal enclosure, “made of large blocks, flags, and slabs of volcanic rock, some of which are set in the ground like posts, while the majority