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THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATE PARKS MEMBER FEDERATED SOCIETIES 904 UNION TRUST BUILDING WASHINGTON. D.C. [[right margin]] RAYMOND H. TORREY FIELD SECRETARY [[/RIGHT MARGIN]] [[left margin]] OFFICERS JOHN BARTON PAYNE, CHAIRMAN STEPHEN T. MATHER, VICE CHAIRMAN BEATRICE M. WARD, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DAVID C. CHAPMAN JAMES L. GREENLEAF JOHN OLIVER LA GORGE MRS. STELLA LEVISTON RICHARD LIEBER PAT M. NEFF WILBUR A. NELSON WILLIAM A. WELCH THEODORE WIRTH OBJECTS To urge upon our governments, local, county, state, and national, the acquisition of land and water areas suitable for recreation and preservation of wild life, as a form of the conservation of our natural resources, until eventually there shall be public parks, forests, and preserves within easy access of all the people of our nation, and also to encourage the interest of non-governmental agencies, and individuals in acquiring, maintaining and dedicating for public use similar areas; and as a means of cementing all park interests into a harmonious whole, to provide for a conference and exchange of ideas by an annual meeting of such interests, and the formation of facilities for the exchange of information and ideas between conferences. [[/left margin]] 99-28 193rd Street, Hollis, Queens, New York, N.Y. , Aug. 24, 1927 Dr. M. R. Harrington, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York, N.Y. Dear Sir: I submit the inclosed photographs with an explanation of them, with the thought that the subject may be worthy of your attention: They are photographs of examples of what I supposeto be aboriginal pictographs, found in caves and rock shelters in western Arkansas. I photographed these examples, but I heard of others, evidently similar, in the same region. These examples were found on Petit Jean Mountain, about 70 miles west of Little Rock, on the south bank of the Arkansas River. Petit Jean Mountain is a flat topped mass, about eight miles long, rising about 700 feet above the river bottoms. Around the brow on all sides, the cap rock is a sort of iron impregnated [[strikethrough illegible]] sandstone, with numerous ironstone concretions, which assume remarkably contorted forms, due presumably to pressures and segregations when the formation was taking shape. These concretions weather readily and contribute to the formation of shallow caves and shelters. The supposed pictographs are found on the back walls, or sometimes on the ceilings of these shelters. They are invariably in red, presumably made with ochre from the river bottoms. The strokes are half an inch to an inch wide. These Photographs give only a few examples of the figures, being the prints that developed well enough to be identifiable. I am submitting, on another sheet, some sketches of other forms. A STATE PARK EVERY HUNDRED MILES Seventh National Conference--Palisades Interstate Park, New York--May 17,18,19,20,1927
