Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822

The information thus far obtained about petroglyphs in Canada is meager. This may be partly due to the fact that through the region of the Dominion now most thoroughly known the...

The employment of pictographs to designate tribes, groups within tribes, and individual persons has been the most frequent of all the uses to which they have been applied. Indee...

The imagination is stimulated and developed by the sense of sight more than by any other sense, perhaps more than by all of the other senses combined. The American Indians, and...

The most surprising fact relating to the North American Indians, which until lately had not been realized, is that they habitually lived in and by religion to a degree comparabl...

The utility of the present work depends mainly upon the opportunity given by the various notes and illustrations collected for students to make their own comparisons and deducti...

It is not within the scope of the present work to examine the several systems of chronology of the American Indians, but only those pictorially exhibited. The Mexican system, mu...

This is the most obvious and probably was the earliest use to which picture-writing was applied. The contrivance of drawing the representations of objects, to fix in the memory...

Perhaps the most important lesson learned from these studies is that no attempt should be made at symbolic interpretation unless the symbolic nature of the particular characters...

Narrative of the Discoveries of the North Coast of America; effected by the officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company during the years 1836-’39. By Thomas Simpson, Esq. London; 1843....

The term “extra-limital,” familiar to naturalists, refers in its present connection to the sculptures, paintings, and drawings on rocks beyond the continents of North and South...

Quelque marque ou signal par où ayont passé leurs ennemis, ou leurs amis, ce qu’ils cognoissent par de certaines marques que les chefs se donnent d’une nation a l’autre, qui ne...

Before writing was invented by a people there were attempts in its direction which are mentioned in other chapters of this paper. Human forms were drawn pictorially in the act o...

Under this heading notes and illustrations are grouped of transmitted drawings, which were employed as letters and missives now are by people who possess the art of writing. To...

It is seldom possible to distinguish by pictographs, or indeed to decide from oral accounts obtained from Indians, whether those purporting to be historical have a genuine basis...

Some writers have endeavored to draw definite ethnic distinctions between the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North America and those farther south. The opinions and theories which...

PL. I-XI. Petroglyphs in Owens Valley, California 56-76 XII. Petroglyph in Maine 82 XIII. Petroglyphs in Nebraska 92 XIV. The Stone of the Giants. Mexico 134 XV. Powhatan’s mant...

Markings on human bodies are--(1) Those expressed by painting or such coloration as is not permanent. It has been found convenient to treat this topic under the heading of “Sign...

and after quitting the village, repairs to the top of some hill and makes an offering of them to the sun, taking them from his pipe and tying them to a pole which he erects in a...

Going from the town of Tlalmanalco to that of Mecamecan, at a distance of a league to the east of the latter and in the confines of the estate of Señor Don José Tepatolco, is an...

The power of determining the authorship of pictographs made on materials other than rocks, by means of their general style and type, can be estimated by a comparison of those of...

No large amount of space need be occupied in the mention of detected pictographic frauds, their present and future importance being small, but much more than is now allowed woul...

The simplest form of rock inscription is almost ubiquitous. In Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Oceanica, shallow, round, cup-like depressions are found, sometimes in rows, so...

Voluntary associations, to be distinguished from those of an exclusively religious character, have flourished among most Indian tribes and are still found among those least affe...

Pictographs under this head may be grouped as: 1st. Continuous record of events in life. 2d. Particular exploits or events. Pictographs of both of these descriptions are very co...

In the plan of this work a distinction has been made between a petroglyph, as Andree names the class, or rock-writing, as Ewbank called it, and all other descriptions of picture...

Fig. 357, 1800-’01.--“The-Good-White-Man-came winter.” Seven white men came in the spring of the year to their village in a starving condition; after feeding them and treating t...

So far as appears on ancient pictographic works the kind of instruments and materials with which they were made can be inferred only from its aspect, though microscopic examinat...

In leaving the geographic distribution of petroglyphs to examine the comprehensive theme of pictographs in general, the first and correct impression is that the mist of the arch...

This is an important division of the purposes for which pictographs are used. The pictographs and the objective devices antecedent to them under this head may be grouped as foll...

Section 1. Pictorial tribal designations 377 Iroquoian 377 Eastern Algonquian 378 Siouan and other designations 379 Absaroka, or Crow 380 Arapaho 381 Arikara, or Ree 381 Assinib...

Section 1. Petroglyphs in Canada 37 Nova Scotia 37 Ontario 42 Manitoba 43 British Columbia 44 Section 2. Petroglyphs in the United States 45 Alaska 47 Arizona 48 California 52 O...

Section 1. Abstract ideas expressed pictorially 584 After; age--old and young; bad; before; big; center; deaf; direction; disease; fast; fear; freshet; good; high; lean; little;...

Section 1. Petroglyphs in Australia 161 Section 2. Petroglyphs in Oceanica 165 New Zealand 165 Kei islands 167 Easter island 169 Section 3. Petroglyphs in Europe 171 Great Brita...

Section 1. Typical style 676 Section 2. Homomorphs and symmorphs 692 Sky; sun and light; moon; day; night; cloud; rain; lightning; human form; human head and face; hand; feet an...

Section 1. Knotted cords and objects tied 223 Section 2. Notched or marked sticks 227 Section 3. Wampum 228 Section 4. Order of songs 231 Section 5. Traditions 250 The origin of...

Section 1. The human body 205 Section 2. Natural objects other than the human body 205 Stone 205 Bone 206 Skins 206 Feathers and quills 207 Gourds 208 Shells 209 Earth and sand...

Section 1. Conventional devices 650 Peace; war; chief; council; plenty of food; famine; starvation; horses; horse stealing; kill and death; shot; coming rain 650-662 Hittite emb...

Section 1. Declaration of war 358 Section 2. Profession of peace and friendship 359 Section 3. Challenge 362 Section 4. Social and religious missives 362 Australian message stic...

Section 1. Symbols of the supernatural 462 Section 2. Myths and mythic animals 468 Thunder birds 483 Section 3. Shamanism 490 Section 4. Charms and amulets 501 Section 5. Religi...

Section 1. Petroglyphs in Central America 141 Nicaragua 141 Guatemala 142 Section 2. Petroglyphs in South America 142 United States of Colombia 143 Guiana 144 Venezuela 147 Braz...

Section 1. Record of expedition 552 Section 2. Record of battle 554 Battle of the Little Bighorn 563 Section 3. Record of migration 566 Section 4. Record of notable events 567