With reference to all kinds of pictographs, it should be noted that mere descriptions without reproduction are of little value. Probable age and origin and traditions relating to them should be ascertained. Their interpretation by natives of the locality who themselves make pictographs or who belong to people who have lately made pictographs is most valuable, especially in reference to such designs as do not represent objects of nature, and which may be either conventional or connected with lines of gesture-signs. Index A Abbe, Prof. Cleveland, explained eclipse to Indians 125 Abnaki devices 152, 153 [Absaroka], customs 55, 166, 230 Abstract ideas pictured 233 Achievements, Signs of individual 183-187 Adams, William A., on rock carvings 22 [African] carved knife 243 [African] property mark 182 Aigaluxamut dialect 148, 198, 199 Ainos of Gazo tattoo 78 [Alaska] Commercial Company, ivory pictographs 191-194 [Alaska] tattooing 66-73 Alaskan pictographs 59, 147-150, 152-155, 161, 191-194, 197-199, 214 Algonkian linguistic stock 19 [Algonkin] family 118 [Algonkin] petroglyph 20, 224-225, 227 [Algonkin] tribe 108 [Algonquin] characters 250 [Algonquin] legends of New England 190 Alleghany River, Pictographs on 20, 21 Allen, Dr. Harrison, on conventionalized forms 244 Alphabets 13 American Horse chart or Winter count, (_see_ Corbusier Winter counts) 95, 129-146 [American Naturalist] on tattooing 76 Amherst, Ohio, Rock carvings at 21 Analysis of the life form in art, An 244 Andree, Dr. R., criticism on pictographs 14-15 [Animal] mounds in Wisconsin 61 Anthropological Society, Washington, cited 17 Antiquities of the Southern Indians, Jones, quoted 22-23, 46 Arab symbols 222 [Arapahoes], Algonkin 108, 109 [Arapahoes], called Blue Cloud 176 [Arapahoes], formation of war party 139 Arch Spring, Pictographs at 28 Archæological frauds, Whittlesey’s, cited 250 Arickara (see Arikara) 100, 101 [Arikara] at war with Dakotas and United States 111-112 [Arikara] pictography 48, 50, 59, 186, 187, 240 [Arikara] property marks 182 [Arikara] Symbol of 60, 213-214, 231 [Arikaras], a branch of the Pawnee or Pani 105 [Arikaras], killed 209-214 Arikaree; Corrupt form of Arikara 100 Arison, William, copied petroglyph 225 [Arizona], pictographs on person 61 Rock carvings in 28-30, 222, 228, 245 Army Medical Museum, Tattooed heads in 75 Arrows in declaration of war 87, 88 Ashley, Gen. William H., attacked by Arickara 111 Assiniboine 116, 119, 124 Association pictographs 203-206 Atsina 108 Australian tattooing 76 Authors quoted by Bancroft 66 Avoidance of personal name by Indians 171 [Aztec] writing 14 Azuza Cañon pictographs 37, 156 B