The treatment of the sun as a face, with rays shooting from it, I also consider foreign to the pictography of the Delaware Indians, nor have I yet seen any specimens proved to be of their manufacture that present it.
A cephalic horn is an essential organ of the Great Snake, and is always represented in pictography and on graven or other images of this being.
The use of the triangle in ancient Pueblo pictography as a symbol of a wing-feather, has been pointed out in an article on the feather as a decorative design in ancient Hopi pottery.
I would it could be said that in favorable contrast to our ignorance of these inscriptions is our comprehension of the highly wrought pictography of the Aztecs.
The purposes for which pictography has been employed by the North American Indians are:-- 1.
Pictography is so obvious a means for conveying information that there is no difficulty in supposing it to have originated independently among different peoples.
As pictography belongs to a low plane of culture, so far as the visual communication of information is concerned, the representations are generally very crude.
In this connection it is noteworthy that in Mexican pictography the faces of women are usually painted yellow--the color of the West=the female region.
The possibility that words recorded in native pictography may belong to an alien tongue, opens out a new field for future research.
The Nahuatl word for eye is ix-telolotli, but in pictography it represented the phonetic value of ix only.
Imperfect attempts at pictography are found in the drawings of the Melanesians, representing different events of their life; in certain rock-pictures of the Bushmen (Fig.
They had a form of pictography peculiar to themselves, and must have come, according to their traditions, from the northern regions, like the Nahuatlans.
Pictography appears to have been known only in Easter Island (p.
Pictography among the aborigines north of Mexico varied from the rude petroglyphs of some of the Shoshonian tribes to the incised work on ivory, &c.
The pictography and picture-writing of the North American Indians have been the subject of two detailed monographs by Mallery (4th Ann.
THE SUN Sun worship plays a most important part in modern Tusayan ritual, and the symbol of the sun in modern pictography can not be mistaken for any other.
In modern pictography a representation of the heart is often depicted at the blind extremity of this line, as if, in fact, there was a connection with this organ and the tubes through which the breath passes.
Practically little is known of the pictography of this part of the Verde valley people, although it has an important bearing on the distribution of the cliff dwellers of the Southwest.
It is not a difficult task to distinguish the pictography of these two peoples, wherever found.
There is little doubt that many examples of aboriginal pictography exist in this neighborhood, which would reward exploration with interesting data.
At the time Rafinesque wrote, Tanner's Narrative had been in print several years, and the numerous examples of Algonkin pictography it contains were before him.
An alleged piece of Delaware pictography is copied by Schoolcraft[105] from the London Archæologia, Vol.
The turtle or tortoise is everywhere in Algonkin pictography the symbol of the earth.
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