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
Mallery, Garrick
Haida Indians; Picture-writing, Indian; Tattooing
aú-qkua-glu-hu té-itc-lu-gĭ´ té xle-mĕn´ tun dú-ia-gūt, taú-na-cŭk
sent to him brought to him five deer, same man
[the hunter] (and)
pi-xlu-nĭ´ ta-xlí-mu-nŭk tun-duĭ´-a-xa-nŭk´ tú-gu-xlí-u-qi. A-xlí-lum
he caught five deer killed. Another
[secured]
Ká-xla-qlŭm´ tu-mú-qtcu-gí.
Shaman not gave them.
(To whom application had been made previously.)
DANCES AND CEREMONIES.
Plate LXXXI exhibits drawings of various masks used in dancing, the
characters of which were obtained by Mr. G. K. Gilbert from rocks at
Oakley Springs, and were explained to him by Tubi, the chief of the
Oraibi Pueblos. They probably are in imitation of masks, as used by
the Moki, Zuñi, and Rio Grande Pueblos.
[Illustration:
BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. LXXXI
MOKI MASKS ETCHED ON ROCKS. ARIZONA.]
Many examples of masks, dance ornaments, and fetiches used in
ceremonies are reported and illustrated in the several papers of
Messrs. Cushing, Holmes, and Stevenson in the Second Annual Report of
the Bureau of Ethnology. Paintings or drawings of many of them have
been found on pottery, on shells, and on rocks.
In this connection the following extract from a letter dated Port
Townsend, Washington, June 1, 1883, from Mr. James G. Swan, will
be acceptable: “You may remember my calling your attention about a
year since to the fact that a gentleman who had been employed on a
preliminary survey for the Mexican National Construction Company had
called on me and was astonished at the striking similarity between
the wooden-carved images of the Haida Indians and the terra-cotta
images he had found in the railroad excavations in Mexico.
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