Show i hieroglyphic ON THE S INTA SiNTA CLARA the other week mr air and mrs airs chas kelly of salt lake took me down to santa clara creek to look for names cut on the rocks by we did not find what we expected in them but we did find a most excellent spec specimen imeri of a or hiero glyph as sometimes called I 1 have a photo of it before me aa as I 1 write it was cut on a large dark colored piece of lava rock not so large as a piano box but of good size nearly to a man s g chest in height its whole surface toward us was corn coin plemely filled aith mith etchings so much so that only with difficulty could any tiny more have been crowded in the men figures on it are crude primitive the drawing of them is poor in the main the exception be ing of some with large balls on their arms and legs those were more nealley done there was a hole in the s surface of the rock which had been utilized as the central boss of a very fine ray ed figure some call such a design a sun emblem above it and be low it were those thoe men like forms with ball on the ends of cross arms or legs it can hardly be truthfully said of them that they are men tig fig ures for some of them are only a cross but one or two are more like the figure ot of a man head legs and arms whatever they are or cheth er representing men sometimes and at other times something else they were the neatest objects drawn on the stone one very f tine ine series of concentric circles composed of tour four each out side the other this was well drawn nicely round and satisfactory A total lack seemingly of the us ual animal forms deer or moun tain sheep As I 1 study the photo pow now I 1 am unable positively to iden tiby any design as filling that form the rock is a chunk of basalt hard as laa laia usually is and the designs have every appearance ot of being old what few men forms are in the design are not the square shoulder ed type but more ot of a knob tor for a head and a dob tor for a body bult but on the stone were some other men forms ot of the crudest possible kind mere ly a pair of legs on a line sometimes with the head if it ever had one flow pow weathered away or maybe others with the legs weathered off off it was below gunlock but still pot not down to ithe the shivwits Shiv wits indian school FB sr |