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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

Totemic                                                         165
   Tribal designations                                            165
   Gentile or clan designations                                   167
   Personal designations                                          168
    Insignia or tokens of authority                               168
    Personal name                                                 169
    An Ogalala roster                                             174
    Red-Cloud’s census                                            176
   Property marks                                                 182
   Status of the individual                                       183
   Signs of particular achievements                               183

  Religious                                                       188
   Mythic personages                                              188
   Shamanism                                                      190
   Dances and ceremonies                                          194
   Mortuary practices                                             197
   Grave-posts                                                    198
   Charms and fetiches                                            201

  Customs                                                         203
   Associations                                                   203
   Daily life and habits                                          205

  Tribal history                                                  207

  Biographic                                                      208
   Continuous record of events in life                            208
   Particular exploits and events                                 214

  Ideographs                                                      219
   Abstract ideas                                                 219
   Symbolism                                                      221

  Identification of the pictographers                             224
   General style or type                                          225
   Presence of characteristic objects                             230

  Modes of interpretation                                         233
   Homomorphs and symmorphs                                       239

  Conventionalizing                                               244

  Errors and frauds                                               247

  Suggestions to collaborators                                    254




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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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