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Pictographs of the North American Indians. A preliminary paper: Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 3-256Mallery, Garrick

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Pictographs of the North American Indians. A preliminary paper: Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 3-256

Name: Pictographs of the North American Indians. A preliminary paper: Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 3-256
Author: Mallery, Garrick

Mallery, Garrick

Haida Indians; Picture-writing, Indian; Tattooing

Transcriber's Note


Italics are indicated by _underscores_, and superscript by caret signs,
e. g. Oheno^npa, 38^{mm}. Individual letters in square brackets were
inverted in the printed text.




  SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION--BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.


  PICTOGRAPHS
  OF THE
  NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.

  A PRELIMINARY PAPER.

  BY
  GARRICK MALLERY.




CONTENTS.


                                                                Page.
  List of illustrations                                             7

  Introductory                                                     13

  Distribution of petroglyphs in North America                     19
   Northeastern rock-carvings                                      19
   Rock-carvings in Pennsylvania                                   20
    in Ohio                                                        21
    in West Virginia                                               22
    in the Southern States                                         22
    in Iowa                                                        23
    in Minnesota                                                   23
    in Wyoming and Idaho                                           24
    in Nevada                                                      24
    in Oregon and Washington Territory                             25
    in Utah                                                        26
    in Colorado                                                    27
    in New Mexico                                                  28
    in Arizona                                                     28
    in California                                                  30
    in Colored pictographs on rocks                                33

  Foreign petroglyphs                                              38
   Petroglyphs in South America                                    38
    in British Guiana                                              40
    in Brazil                                                      44
   Pictographs in Peru                                             45

  Objects represented in pictographs                               46

  Instruments used in pictography                                  48
   Instruments for carving                                         48
    for drawing                                                    48
    for painting                                                   48
    for tattooing                                                  49

  Colors and methods of application                                50
   In the United States                                            50
   In British Guiana                                               53
   Significance of colors                                          53

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Pictographs of the North American Indians. A preliminary paper: Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 3-256

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