It is Mallery’s opinion that no “considerable information of value in an historical point of view will be obtained directly from the interpretations of the Pictographs in North America.
Garrick Mallory’s special studies of pictographs are contained in the Bull.
Plate XIII, next described, and with some of those at Sentinal Bluffs, shown in Plate XI; also, with the pictographs at the mouth of Cowiche Creek.
That the war-bonnet was used in this region is strongly suggested not only by this headdress but also by those represented in the pictographs and petroglyphs as well as by the wearing of it by the modern Indians of this area.
Also, taken together with the pictographs representing the full figure with similar headdress shown in Fig.
Some of the pictographs at the same place have every alternate radiating line in red, while others are in white.
Local merchants have defaced these pictographs with advertisements.
In the Nez Perce region[370] such pecked pictographs are also found, some of them being upon fields painted brown.
Army, discovered pictographs on a perpendicular cliff of granite at the lower end of Lake Chelan, lat.
For instance, the radiating lines of the pictographs shown in Plate XVI are probably explained satisfactorily by similar figures in Plate XI, Fig.
Willcox of North Yakima that there are petroglyphs or pictographs on the rocks ten miles south of Wenatchee on the western side of the Columbia River; and by Prof.
Petroglyphs, pictographs in white, and representations of feather headdresses were not found among the archaeological objects in the Thompson region.
Some of the Yakima pictographs have been destroyed during the construction of the irrigation flume which runs along the top of this cliff.
Selah Canon next described, the pictographs at the mouth of Cowiche Creek, and the incised human form in antler.
Pikler; naming is indeed the original germ of totemism, but the names came before the pictographs which represent the animals denoted by the names: it could not possibly be otherwise.
These pictographs are very rude and are drawn after the style common among Plains Indians, but no doubt they were sufficiently lifelike to call up to the mind of the artist each detail of the stirring events which they record.
Roche Peinte, or Rochers Peints, and which continues to be called Painted Rock or Rocks, from the Indian pictographs with which it was adorned for ages.
The fourth parcel lies about 8 miles west of the northwest corner and encompasses much of Horseshoe Canyon, whose walls are adorned by striking pictographs (fig.
In places the cliffs are prehistoric art galleries, adorned with pictographs of unheard-of birds and animals, human hands outspread, geometrical designs, and attenuated figures of men in various attitudes.
Indian pictographs abound--some prehistoric, some evidently of modern Apache doing.
Here at the edge of a pine forest a vast tufa cliff rises, its face marked with pictographs of unknown antiquity and honeycombed with dwellings of a vanished people, probably ancestors, of some of the present-day Pueblos.
Curious pictographs of the ancients may be traced on many a rock; and if one knows where to look, there are pagan shrines where prayer plumes are yet offered to the Divine Ones.
In both, the pictographs are arranged in a continuous spiral, beginning in the lower right-hand corner and ending near the center, the rows of pictographs being separated from each other by a continuous spiral.
Compare the battle pictographsfrom the Dakota calendars as given by Mallery (figure 75).
It consists of a series of pictographs designed to fix in memory the verses of a genesis and migration chant which begins with the mythic period and comes down to the advent of the whites about the year 1610.
The Arikara are preeminently distinguished among the northern tribes as the corn-planting Indians, and are usually designated in pictographs by the figure of a man with an ear of corn.
Although this device is used for a variety of meanings when it is employed ceremonially or in elaborate pictographs of the Indians both of North and South America, it represents the four winds.
The pictographs were conventionalised and reduced to their present form, but still remained ideograms supplemented by a limited number of phonetic determinants.
These pictographs themselves are already reduced to the merest outlines of the original pictorial representations.
But no earlier forms, showing the gradual transition from the primitive picture writing to the degraded pictographs here given, have yet come to light[117].
The marks in the picture evidently representing forked lightning, and directed as in the language of the tradition at the forehead of the beast, are without parallel among the Indian pictographs within the writer's reach.
I certainly hope you will bring every possible evidence to bear in your work, and that by a study of many pictographs you will be able to test the doubtful figures on the stone.
The canyon walls are adorned by strikingpictographs (Lohman, 1974, fig.
These pictographs are still in the main undecipherable, and opinions differ as to the exact stage of development which they represent.
The left hand specimen is from the last named locality, and of the same period, and presents pictographsdrawn upon the inner surface.
Drawings were made of a collection of Eskimo pictographs and ivory carvings at the museum of the Alaska Commercial Company and the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Cal.
At Tule Indian Agency, in the deep valleys on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, sketches of pictographs were made in continuation of work accomplished there two years before.
Hoffman discovered some painted pictographsand examined a number which have not yet been published.
Many of the sites do not show the faintest trace of house structures; some of them have remains of storage cists, and many have remains of Navaho burial cists, associated with pictographs not of Navaho origin.
Illustration: Plate LV Site Marked by Pictographs] In the southern cave there are no traces of masonry, but the back of the cave is covered with hand prints and pictographs of deer, as shown in the plate.
The cliffs back of the ruin and for 200 feet west of it are covered with pictographs in white and colors.
There is always some evidence of human occupancy, often many pictographs on the back wall, as in an example in the lower part of the canyon shown in plate LV.
Some places on the cliff, which were apparently back-walls of rooms, were plastered and coated with white, and there are many pictographs on the rock.
Finally, the cliff wall above this point is decorated with pictographs of tadpoles and other water symbols in common use among the pueblos, and these do not occur elsewhere on this site.
Back of the rooms west of the tower there are some old pictographs on the cliff wall at the place where the roof abutted on it.
There are no pictographs on the back wall, and but little staining by smoke.
The cliff walls, both of the lower and upper ledges, are covered with pictographs in white, red, and yellow.
Except for some slight traces in the northwest corner of the west room, there are no smoke stains about, nor are there any pictographs on the cliff walls.
Many of the sculptures in Copan and Palenque to which we have referred contain pictographs and hieroglyphs.
The pictographs of the Kern River Canyon, according to the same writer, were inscribed on the rocks there "about five thousand years ago.
In other places again, blank-books or maps for the hieroglyphics or pictographs were to be seen folded together like fans.
As petroglyphs are much more permanent than pictographs on more perishable materials, they are more likely to be preserved from ancient times, but it is probable that the latter were actually of more frequent occurrence.
The clan, or gentile, designations are totems; these are depicted in the funeralpictographs to the exclusion of the personal names; the latter are not indicative of an Indian's totem.
A general deduction, made after several years of study of pictographs of all kinds found among the North American Indians, is that they exhibit very little trace of mysticism or of esotericism in any form.
Nowhere in the world are pictographs so much employed as in America, and fortunately it is possible to gain precise information respecting their signification.
Pictographs are very common either of a continuous account of the chief events in the life of the subject of the sketch, or of separate accounts of some particular exploit or event in the life of the person referred to.
It is not believed that any considerable information of value in an historical point of view will be obtained directly from the interpretation of the pictographs in North America.
Everywhere a figure of a man means a man, and that of a tree stands for a tree, and to this extent pictographs can be deciphered by any one.
Similarly research in the origin of writing derives it, as indicated earlier in this chapter, through the intermediate form of pictographsfrom pictures.
Pictographs of the North American Indians, a preliminary paper, by Garrick Mallery; pp.
Hoffman proceeded early in August to Paint Rock, North Carolina, to secure sketches of pictographs upon the canyon walls of the French Broad River near that place.
The pictographs on the face of the cliff above Honanki are for the greater part due to the former Apache occupants of the rooms, and are situated high above the tops of the walls of the ruin.
The meaning of these circles in the bowl referred to above is not clear to me, nor is my series of pictographs sufficiently extensive to enable a discovery of its significance by comparative methods.
The Verde pictographs can not be distinguished, so far as designs are concerned, from many found elsewhere in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona.
There are no pictographs near this ruin, and no signs of former visits by white men.
These pictographs occur on a black, superficial layer of lava rock, or upon lighter stone with a malpais layer, which had been pecked through, showing a lighter color beneath.
The head bears the terraced rain-cloud designs almost universal inpictographs of birds.
Many spiral figures, almost constant pictographs in cliff ruins, are found in several places.
If any pictographs formerly existed in the adjacent cliff they have disappeared.
On the perpendicular wall which forms the rear of inclosure B, many feet above the top of the standing front walls, there are several pictographs of Apache origin.
Of the genuineness of the pictographs no one need have the slightest question.
This is a small and rather insignificant cave just under the rim, to the extreme left (west) of El Tovar amphitheatre, wherein a number of interesting Indian pictographs are to be seen.
To this illuminating book, therefore, the curious student is referred for further information regarding the pictographs themselves.
On the left is a private dining-room, whose wall decorations mainly consist of Indian deer hieroglyphics, reproduced from old pictographs in Mallery Grotto.
The overhanging rock makes a rude cave or grotto, and it has been named Mallery Grotto, after Garrick Mallery, the great authority on the pictographs of the North American Indians.
Here a number of interesting pictographs may be seen on the wall to the left, reminding one somewhat of those found in Mallery Grotto at El Tovar.
The above Ojibwa pictographs are taken from Schoolcraft, loc.
The following examples are added to show the ideographic style ofpictographs not connected with gestures, lest it may be suspected that an attempt is made to prove that gestures are always included in or connected with them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pictographs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
