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 XIX. Conventionalizing 649

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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 emblems 662 Section 2. Syllabaries and alphabets 664 The Micmac “hieroglyphics” 666 Pictographs in alphabets 674