. Bulletin. Ethnology. kroeberI HANDBOOK OF INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA 937 This distribution can not be accounted for by environment. It is true that the open plains of the great valley and the heavy redwood belt would furnish few exposed stones suitable for inscribing. But the half-forested broken country north and south of San Francisco and the foothills of the Sierra offer abundant opportunities which the inhabitants of these regions availed themselves of most Fig. 78.—Distribution of petrosraplis. Squares, carved; crosses,, painted; crossed sqiuiies, carved and painted. Tlie lines ar
. Bulletin. Ethnology. kroeberI HANDBOOK OF INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA 937 This distribution can not be accounted for by environment. It is true that the open plains of the great valley and the heavy redwood belt would furnish few exposed stones suitable for inscribing. But the half-forested broken country north and south of San Francisco and the foothills of the Sierra offer abundant opportunities which the inhabitants of these regions availed themselves of most Fig. 78.—Distribution of petrosraplis. Squares, carved; crosses,, painted; crossed sqiuiies, carved and painted. Tlie lines are the limits of recent Sho- shonean territory. On the other hand, petrographs are common throughout the Great Basin, which was solidly tenanted by Shoshoneans. The inference is therefore strong that these people are mainly responsible for the painted and carved rocks of California, in ])art through the work of their ancestors' hands and partly by their influence on their neighbors. (PI. 82.) The most remarkable pictographs are those in the Chumash counti-y, beginning with the famous Corral Hock in the Carrizo. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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