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

Chapter XVIII. Ideography 583

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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; lone; many, much; obscure; opposition; possession; prisoner; short; sight; slow; tall; trade; union; whirlwind; winter, cold, snow 585-606 Section 2. Signs, symbols, and emblems 607 Section 3. Significance of colors 618 Decorative use of color 619 Ideocrasy of colors 622 Color in ceremonies 623 Color relative to death and mourning 629 Colors for war and peace 631 Color designating social status 633 Section 4. Gesture and posture signs depicted 637 Water 642 Child 643 Negation 644