These belts were woven with various designs in wampum, either pictographic or symbolic, the meaning of which was preserved and explained on public occasions by an officer appointed to that duty.
By far the greatest amount of pictographic material was collected in Owen's valley, California, where series of petroglyphs are scattered over an arid, sandy desert, the extremes of which are more than twenty miles apart.
Clark, within the last decade, and that is, that the Indian pictographic system was based on their gesture speech.
Schoolcraft says of the Chipeway pictographic symbols: "The turtle is believed to be, in all instances, a symbol of the earth, and is addressed as mother.
Pictographic System The pictographicsystem which the WALAM OLUM presents is clearly that of the Western Algonkins, most familiar to us through examples from the Chipeways and Shawnees.
I shall leave it for others to determine to what extent they should be accepted as a pure specimen of Algonkin pictographic writing.
The signification of a pictographic symbol can not be forgotten, for the sensation of the symbol directly recalls the image or the idea of the object; there are not in that case intermediate states of consciousness which can be eliminated.
They occur in great profusion in America from north to south, but here they are predominantly religious or pictographic in significance.
At the beginning of the period the old form of pictographic writing is still in general use, but by the close of Middle Minoan III.
The earliest form of Minoan writing that can be traced consists of rude pictographicsymbols engraved upon bead-seals and gems.
The long inscription which covers both of its faces is written in a form of hieroglyphics which, to some extent, resembles the Minoan pictographic system, but is not the same.
A Pictographic mode of communicating ideas by the Northwestern Indians.
Although we had known nothing of the movement which produced the pictographic letter found on a pole at the Petite Roche, above Sac River, it was, in fact, regarded by the Dacotas as an answer to that letter.
The pictographic devices thus drawn denoted the exact number of the party, their chiefs, and the authority under which these crude negotiations were commenced.
Pictographic Mode of Communicating Ideas among the Northwestern Indians, observed during the Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi in 1820, in a Letter to the Secretary of War.
I have mentioned the interest excited by our Chippewas finding the bark letter, or pictographic memorial at the deserted Sioux encampment above Sac River.
This form of structure is generally represented in pictographic records, as shown in Fig.
It was considered in the Bureau of Ethnology an important duty to ascertain how much of truth existed in these remarkable accounts, and for that purpose its pictographic specialists, myself and Dr.
The pictographic delineation of ideas is found to exist chiefly among the shamans, hunters, and travelers of the Ojibwa, and there does not appear to be a recognized system by which the work of any one person is fully intelligible to another.
As there are variants in the pictographic delineation of originally similar ideas, there are also corresponding variations in the traditions pertaining to them.
They introduced abbreviations exactly as that is done inpictographic writing.
From a similarpictographic method is derived the figurative writing in hieroglyphics of the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Mexicans of the table-land of Anahuoc and their neighbours the Mayas of the peninsula of Yucatan.
But a purely pictographic script has its limitations.
Neither of the Tejada brothers, who had been past here many times, nor any of the natives of this region appeared to have any idea of the origin or meaning of this singular collection of pictographic rocks.
The following day a short ride brought us past another pictographic rock, recently blasted open by an energetic "treasure seeker" of Chuquibamba.
The want of letters is thus, in a manner, supplied by signs and pictographic symbols.
A curious and valuable pictographic map of the migration of the Aztecs, not heretofore printed.
It ceased to be pictographic or ideographic; it became simply a pure sound-sign system, an alphabet.
From such pictographic signs to the first elements of Chinese writing is not a very long stretch.
This pictographic reproduction of the massacre is said to have remained clearly visible for many years after the massacre and was frequently visited by interested or curious persons who came to the region.
We know what boys are capable of in pictographic art from the occasional defacements of our walls and railings; but we still feel a little sceptical when M.
Though the general outline of these stories may have been preserved partly in the schools, partly in the pictographic MSS.
A pictographic painting--the Coat of Arms of the great family of Shewish hung upon the wall.
Next the house on either side are two pictographic men, who appear to stand beneath protecting arms which pass over their heads, connect with the house, and grasp the hands of the first personages immediately on the right and left.
The ancient Mexican pictographic manuscripts abound in representations of trees, conventionalized in such a manner as to resemble crosses; these apparently take an important part in the scenes depicted.
Any one at all familiar with the curious pictographic manuscripts of the ancient Mexicans will see at a glance that we have here a sacrificial scene, in which a priest seems to be engaged in the sacrifice of a human being.
A belt accepted by the Indians of Western Pennsylvania from the French in a treaty which secured to the latter four forts within English territory had embroidered upon it four houses, pictographicrepresentations of the forts.
Yet of these very works one writer has ventured the opinion that "they do but express the individual fancy of those by whom they were made;" that they are even without "indications of any intelligent design or pictographic idea.
The execution of the written sign is not its realization as information, as is the case with pictographic representations, some leading to the making of things (tools, artifacts).
Writing, which takes place in many respects at a higher cognitive level than the production and utterance of the word, or than in pictographic notation, is a multi- relational device.
This does not mean that literacy has to be discarded altogether, or that it will disappear, as cuneiform notation and pictographic writing did, or that it will be replaced by drawing or by computer-based language processing.
Pictographic messages are used whenever a certain norm or rule has to be observed.
In the case of Egyptian pictographic writing, we know that images were used as mediating devices in such sophisticated instances as the burial of pharaohs and in their life after death.
Pointing to the Chinese writing as a model and parallel, he made a Sign Language font of 4,000 pictographic types for use in his projected works.
Hadley’s pictographic writing of the Sign Language, fully set forth in the bibliographical matter.
He made a study of Sign Language in order to furnish the Indians with a pictographic writing, based on diagrams of the signs, and meant to be read by all Indians, without regard to their speech.
In most cases the Mexican writings are pictographic rather than hieroglyphic, though Mayan glyphs do occur.