Pictographs of the North American Indians. A preliminary paper / Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 3-256

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CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

INTRODUCTORY.

DISTRIBUTION OF PETROGLYPHS IN NORTH AMERICA.

FOREIGN PETROGLYPHS.

OBJECTS REPRESENTED IN PICTOGRAPHS.

INSTRUMENTS USED IN PICTOGRAPHY.

COLORS AND METHODS OF APPLICATION. IN THE UNITED STATES.

MATERIALS UPON WHICH PICTOGRAPHS ARE MADE.

MNEMONIC.

NOTIFICATION.

TOTEMIC.

RELIGIOUS.

CUSTOMS.

TRIBAL HISTORY.

BIOGRAPHIC.

IDEOGRAPHS.

IDENTIFICATION OF THE PICTOGRAPHERS.

MODES OF INTERPRETATION.

CONVENTIONALIZING.

ERRORS AND FRAUDS.

SUGGESTIONS TO COLLABORATORS.

Index

Transcriber's Note

Transcriber's Note
In the html version of this eBook, images with borders are linked to larger versions of the illustrations.
Individual letters in square brackets were inverted in the printed text.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.

PICTOGRAPHS
OF THE
NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.

A PRELIMINARY PAPER.

BY
GARRICK MALLERY.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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