[Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) by Carl Lumholtz]@TWC D-Link bookUnknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) CHAPTER I 24/25
All the human figures were drawn in the characteristic style that we find farther north, the hands and feet being defined with three radiating lines, like a bird's track.
The size of the figure, carved in something like a frame, is about twenty by twenty-four inches, and each of the three figures in the group close below is about eighteen inches high.
Some of the drawings evidently represent the deified dragon-fly found almost everywhere among the ruins of Arizona and Northern Mexico.
There are also the concentric circles, the conventionalised spiral, and the meander design, so common among the North American Indians, and still in use among the Moquis. Our botanist, Mr.Hartman, drew my attention to an interesting cactus, which is beautifully shaped like a candelabra, and attains a height of three to five feet.
As it grows old, the top joints of the branches become thick and heavy and are easily broken off by the wind.
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