Engravings on bamboo. New Caledonia 743 1257. Typical character. Guiana 745 1258. Moki devices 746 1259. Frames and arrows. Moki 746 1260. Blossoms. Moki 746 1261. Moki characters 748 1262. Mantis. Kejimkoojik 749 1263. Animal forms. Sonora 749 1264-1278. Weapons and ornaments. Dakota 750-752 1279. Weapons 753 1280. Australian wommera and clubs 754 1281. Turtle. Maya 756 1282. Armadillo. Yucatan 756 1283. Dakota drawings 756 1284. Ojibwa drawings 757 1285-1287. Grave creek stone 761-762 1288. Imitated pictograph 765 1289. Fraudulent pictograph 767 1290. Chinese characters 767 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. BY GARRICK MALLERY. INTRODUCTION. An essay entitled “Pictographs of the North American Indians: A Preliminary Paper,” appeared in the Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. The present work is not a second edition of that essay, but is a continuation and elaboration of the same subject. Of the eighty-three plates in that paper not one is here reproduced, although three are presented with amendments; thus fifty-one of the fifty-four plates in this volume are new. Many of the text figures, however, are used again, as being necessary to the symmetry of the present work, but they are now arranged and correlated so as to be much more useful than when unmethodically disposed as before, and the number of text figures now given is twelve hundred and ninety-five as against two hundred and nine, the total number in the former paper. The text itself has been rewritten and much enlarged. The publication of the “Preliminary Paper” has been of great value in the preparation of the present work, as it stimulated investigation and report on the subject to such an extent that it is now impossible to publish within reasonable limits of space all the material on hand. Indeed, after the present work had been entirely written and sent to the Public Printer, new information came to hand which ought to be published, but can not now be inserted.