Show A rine OF pictographic SKILL AT EHRON fem stion and ind inci cd ed AV AN ork on same panel saturday and sunday I 1 spent tn in emery county gl etting photos of the ancient indian painted and incised v nork ork to be found near there when ihen I 1 gat got in to perron the of an approaching storm kept me back and I 1 was one day late two cars tilled filled with interested pedr sons came back from the dinosaur site one containing N L williams seminary teacher at Cast ledale dr cheater cheter stock ot of the california ansti tute of T 11 who was re search associate of the carnegie in statue of washington D C in its re search work at gypsum cave ne vada who was specially desirous of seeing this field of dinosaurs and jr it was of merit enough to justify an expedition to that local ty superintendent nuttall of 0 the emory emery county schools mr bardy music teacher and in the other car earl N hills mr ralphs mr wil liams local persons dr stock ex pressed himself as w 11 pleased and stated that he would report bis his find ings the big leg bone which I 1 had seen a few weeks ago was bared a little more by this party and some photos taken bishop E P snow took me down billow molan to the horse corral on the creek and there I 1 saw one of the mo t excellent specimens of early all ab nee craftsmanship I 1 have yet seen this is a combination of painted and incised work in the same de signs the incised work used to de note embellishments on the painted figure each man is painted in ili red still nicely brilliant and then tor for a aj necklace design the portion of the man to be so decorated is pecked aay so that the incised work adds the effect of a separate necklace on the person of the man the figures are the highly ornate kateina drawings very well exe buted with a balance and harmony in proportion which I 1 had never seen before they were good craftsman ship of a superior technique I 1 noted the famous moki ear ants like a ball pendant from each ear and one a skirted figure more like the hair dressing of tha the hopi maiden one ornate figure car ried tied a scroll in his right hand at his left hand was a tine fine series of wavy dots alongside a sinuous snake un mistakable misa kable the commanding figure in that group was a kateina man highly ornate horned ear lobes or pendants and over his chest extending like a halt circle was a rainbow cutting his figure blending into the design with its incise fl 4 work over his paint ked ad figure to this man a right a rainbow in alternate red and white lines this is interesting and very rare A I 1 me ine rainbow in colors avith alvith a group under its arch then the group of prime interest which to me was the center of ait at traction was a group of three men mert highly ornate neatly drawn each figure with horns one holding some thing in his hand two of them with a pendant ear decoration and all of them in red but each with a seeming necklace or portion of his chest in not painted this blemma into the figure perfectly giving a well executed ensemble the whole nice ly balanced good harmony preserved in thu figures and all three mera men under an over arching rainbow of three lines the two outer ones white paint and the third or inner line of red paint this was very neatly done below the men but in the eama group a deer and then this entire group resting testing upon an earth terrace bowl a sort of lot of ge lozenges lo in a low shallow bowl like effect it may not be so another may interpret it to mean some other object about fifty feet to the left a small group very verp ordinary just the corn com mon lot of incised little men rudely drawn and not worth photograph ing but about sixty feet or so up stream in a partly covered cleft seven nice men six of which were in red and the seventh in black the thought rose the six regional space regions and the all together or the seventh as found by gushing cushing among the zuni then a giant man figure possibly a personage sa cred in lore and story by the side ol 01 it another large figure but very aim win now and fast disappearing this second figure rather poorly ex ox eluted forty five painted figures in 1 buckhorn wash that evening I 1 gave my lecture on the indians with lantern slide pictures in the church to a small amill am ill group and told them an indian tale or two later should it be wished 1 will go back and show the pictures to a larger group sunday morning I 1 went to castle dale and was piloted out to buck horn wash there la is an extended group there occupying nearly eighty feet of the canyon wall once a very fine group of pictures all painted in red but now defaced by the whites iwho who have painted their own names RIGHT ACROSS the ancient work its t s bad enough to put an initial or name even on the same panel but to plant a name right over the old old design spoils the whole group one cannot photograph the one without the other and why be so thoughtless as to spoil what the person chasn t the discernment to appreciate the little squib rose to mind at once polls names and faces are ott oft enest seen in public places it its a so every boy scout master should impress on bis his group that un der no circumstance no matter to what rare spot their jaunt has taken them they are never to deface an ob eject of interest destroy such a group of ancient indian work or mutilate any thing in any manner by putting their own names or initials upon it this group Is forty five figures 0 men almost entirely one AF exception worth mentioning bang bt lug a deer in a vertical position not horizontal as in nature of special note were two J immense men looking tor or all the world like archangels with great wing spread drooping wings like depicted depleted in our childrens chil drena books of angels new to me I 1 have never seen that kind of a figure before cornute grouped in a pair with all the others right tight and left one painted group like dikea navaho Yeb echal sand painting one very tine fine group on a much smaller scale almost exactly like a navaho sand painting of the yeba beba chal gods that Is long slender tig ures the bodies represented by a mere line these were in red paint one held a snake in bis his band hand the group was by itself in the series and best of all not defaced by our own people unfortunately the critical point has passed and they are go ing fast it will require much hand work on the negative to render it at all presentable to do the best 1 I could toward it I 1 exposed the nega live through a strong yellow filter and stopped the lens down to the ut most small aperture and gave a long time exposure one man figure once in dull red paint bad had a coating of a dull green paint over it done tn in the long gao this man held a snake in his band hand just to the right of this interest ing group the north wall of buck horn wash juts up an immense crag fully to 1000 1 feet above the stream bed at this point there are a few cottonwood trees and a tiny trickle of water in the bed of the wash but we were easily able to step from stone to stone and kept dry shod I 1 suppose in rainy sea sons which during this dinuth d auth we haven t had for the six years more mo water Is in the wash the au to road takes to the bed it if it in bey feral eral places at ferron ferrou I 1 have seen kinds 04 0 work not heretofore seer by me any place else either in utah na nevada or new mexico 1 11 r in stance the two archangels or the combined painted and incised work on the same figure it all 11 blending each part denoting an eftia on the whole and these how certainly I 1 had not en countered them in two baor work in any other place I 1 have let et visited the group east of molan on I 1 ie e creek bed Is of the finest technique I 1 have ever seen I 1 have not as yet visited those wonderful in dry fork near vernal which I 1 am told are the height of and tar far surpass anything else found in the state but I 1 have soon scan pi pl toa tos of tiem t iem this one tiny group u ast east of ferron perron tor for workmanship excel lence of pattern and dillay of 0 skill tar far surpass any others teat I 1 bayt bet et seen there and back the car stend miles just a nie ni e little jaunt and during the best time of ou fine tall fall weather I 1 felt well repaid by the little li ti p after the above was set up into type tor for our use the following ap feared in the salt lake tribune of the issue of october 7 1931 I 1 fossil BEDS NEAH NEAR PRICE YIELD DINOSAUR BONES price rich fossil beds lie only 15 miles southeast of 0 price it was disclosed monday following a visit to this section by dr chester stock curator of the southwest museum at los angeles a member of the far fac alty of the california institute of technology and member of the re search association of the carnegie in ution dr stock visited the fossil beds in ferron canyon 12 miles south of Cast ledale during the week end and found a large number of excellent dinosaur skeletons three differed dif feren varieties of skeletons were discover ed one specimen being a comalee comp leo aniline of a small duck bill dinosaur other interesting finds include a thigh bone 5 feet long and a huge tooth indicating that some of the prehistoric monsters were carnivorous dr stock described the field at ferron perron as one of the richest he had aver lever seen and from all indications the field near price is fully as rich he announced that he would send a truck from the los angeles to secure the thigh bone and the skeleton of the duck bill dinosaur and later plans to conduct system at lc ic uncovering of the fields he ile plans also to do considerable work in the beds near price A field fifty miles long extending from woodside to emery gives promise of being very rich in skeletons dr stock said A party of nine including N L williams principal of the Cast ledale seminary and james A nuttall su perin of emery cound schools accompanied dr stock the large thigh bone ment ionel above is the one I 1 was taken to three weeks ago and we saw much other material it is very interesting frank beckwith sr i |