. Bulletin. Ethnology. KlDDBfi-GnEENSET] ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA 197. Painted pictograph. with incised building stones recorded by Dr. Fewkes from Sun Temple, Mesa Verde.^ Painted Pictographs The statement has been made^ that painted pictographs were characteristic of the Basket Maker culture and rock-cut ones of the Cliff-dwellers. It is true, indeed, that most if not all of the rock-cut examples collected by us were found at or near cliff-dwellings and were probably a product of that cul- ture, and also that certain painted figures are probably Basket Maker. The general distinc
. Bulletin. Ethnology. KlDDBfi-GnEENSET] ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA 197. Painted pictograph. with incised building stones recorded by Dr. Fewkes from Sun Temple, Mesa Verde.^ Painted Pictographs The statement has been made^ that painted pictographs were characteristic of the Basket Maker culture and rock-cut ones of the Cliff-dwellers. It is true, indeed, that most if not all of the rock-cut examples collected by us were found at or near cliff-dwellings and were probably a product of that cul- ture, and also that certain painted figures are probably Basket Maker. The general distinction, however, does not hold good, for we have seen painted pictographs so placed on cave walls that they could have been made only by peoi:)le sitting or stand- ing on the roofs of the cliff-houses them- selves. Such a series, representing sheep, tailed anthropomorphic creatures, and snakes, was present in Euin 7 (these were recorded, but were unfortunately lost in the field). Also in cliff-dwellings are seen hand prints a fl in red or white paint, generally slapped on with â â the wet hand (pi. 33, a), less commonly " stenciled " Jll^ ^^ by laying the hand on the rock and dabbing about ^^^ it with paint (pi. 92, a). The latter figure illus- trates an interesting series of stenciled sandal prints; the imaginary individual is shown by his tracks to have walked to a little projection in the vertical wall, to have jumped down from it, landing with both feet together, and then to have con- tinued his journey. All the foregoing are presumably Cliff- house; a second class comprises painted pictogi^aphs the cultural affiliations of which can not as yet be definitely determined. They are shown in figures 98 and 99 and plate 95.'' The first two are from the upper walls of the cave near Euin A that held the hump-backed figures described above (pi. 9-i, a). The large white sheep conforms rather closely to the pecked examples; the red foot-shaped objects with it and those in f
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