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
Picture-Writing of the American Indians, published in 1893 as the tenth annual report of the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology, is Garrick Mallery's survey of pictographic records made by Native American peoples. He catalogues petroglyphs carved or painted on rock across North, Central and South America and compares them with examples from other continents, then turns to pictographs on hide, bark and other materials and the instruments used to make them. Later chapters classify the uses of picture-writing: memory aids, calendars and winter counts, notices and messages, totems and names, religion, customs, history and biography, and the development of conventional signs. With hundreds of illustrations, it remains a basic reference on its subject. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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