. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ANCIENT PUEBLOS OF UPPER GILA EEGION. 33 small rude carving of tufa, representing some animal, probably a turkey, was found in a ruin at East Camp, New Mexico. (Fig. 56.) PICTOGRAPHS. On the upper Tularosa at a point where the river enters a box canj'on below Joseph^ New Mexico, are smooth cliff faces decorated with numerous petroglyphs, which are generally very well drawn.'^ Man}^ of these were figured by Henry Hales.' On the Blue Eiver near the ranch of Heniy Jones are figures representing bear tracks, deer, men, dragonflies, stars, and ot
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ANCIENT PUEBLOS OF UPPER GILA EEGION. 33 small rude carving of tufa, representing some animal, probably a turkey, was found in a ruin at East Camp, New Mexico. (Fig. 56.) PICTOGRAPHS. On the upper Tularosa at a point where the river enters a box canj'on below Joseph^ New Mexico, are smooth cliff faces decorated with numerous petroglyphs, which are generally very well drawn.'^ Man}^ of these were figured by Henry Hales.' On the Blue Eiver near the ranch of Heniy Jones are figures representing bear tracks, deer, men, dragonflies, stars, and other objects, and along this river where smooth rock faces are encountered petroglyphs may be seen. PAINT STONES. Occasionally evidences of pulverized paints are found in the graves and ruins, but commonly the ancient tribes retained the paint in its natural rock condition, as do the present-day Pueblos, and ground the masses on flat stone sur- faces with some liquid medium, when the color was required. The ores from which paint was derived are copper carbonate, blue and green; kaolin and limestone, white; hematite, red and brown; iron ocher, red and yellow; carbon, black; tinted clays, pink and cream; and in very rare instances —scdlptuked . , ANIMAL HEAD, EASX noticed on pottery, some agent, perhaps manganese, camp, new siEiiico, was employed to produce purple. Sources of salt in a dry state are very few in this region. Salt River takes its name from the salinity of its waters derived from great salt springs which gush out into the stream at several places in its course. These sources, however, do not deposit salt and are be- sides very inaccessible. Zuhi salt lake, which was far but reached by comparatively easy trails across the mountains, was probably visited for this precious mineral. Hidden in a nook on top of the debris of Tularosa Cave was found a bag of lambskin sewn with sinew con- taining a hardened mass of Zuiii salt, showing plainly the depression formed b
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