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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 — John Shaqi

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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

Name: 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
Author: Mallery, Garrick

Mallery, Garrick

Picture-writing, Indian

Designations of individuals                           419
      Insignia, or tokens of authority                               419
      Signs of individual achievements                               433
      Property marks                                                 441
      Personal names                                                 442
        Objective                                                    447
        Metaphoric                                                   453
        Animal                                                       455
        Vegetable                                                    458
  Chapter XIV. Religion                                              461
    Section 1. Symbols of the supernatural                           462
    Section 2. Myths and mythic animals                              468
      Thunder birds                                                  483
    Section 3. Shamanism                                             490
    Section 4. Charms and amulets                                    501
    Section 5. Religious ceremonies                                  505
    Section 6. Mortuary practices                                    517
  Chapter XV. Customs                                                528
    Section 1. Cult societies                                        528
    Section 2. Daily life and habits                                 530
    Section 3. Games                                                 547
  Chapter XVI. History                                               551
    Section 1. Record of expedition                                  552
    Section 2. Record of battle                                      554
      Battle of the Little Bighorn                                   563
    Section 3. Record of migration                                   566
    Section 4. Record of notable events                              567
  Chapter XVII. Biography                                            571
    Section 1. Continuous record of events in life                   571
    Section 2. Particular exploits or events                         575
  Chapter XVIII. Ideography                                          583
    Section 1. Abstract ideas expressed pictorially                  584
      After; age--old and young; bad; before; big; center;
      deaf; direction; disease; fast; fear; freshet; good; high;
      lean; little; lone; many, much; obscure; opposition;
      possession; prisoner; short; sight; slow; tall; trade;
      union; whirlwind; winter, cold, snow                       585-606
    Section 2. Signs, symbols, and emblems                           607
    Section 3. Significance of colors                                618
      Decorative use of color                                        619
      Ideocrasy of colors                                            622

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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

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