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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 — Garrick Mallery

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

Garrick Mallery

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 1006 pages

A scholarly ethnological report and essay collection on pictography and symbolic communication among American Indians, published in the Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (1888–89). Garrick Mallery surveys signs, pictographs, and their meanings, offering a window into Indigenous visual record-keeping. Valuable for readers interested in early anthropology and Native American expressive traditions.

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Contents

  1. LIBRARY CATALOGUE SLIPS.
  2. REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR.
  3. PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS.
  4. CONTENTS.
  5. ILLUSTRATIONS.
  6. INTRODUCTION.
  7. CHAPTER I. PETROGLYPHS.
  8. CHAPTER II. PETROGLYPHS IN NORTH AMERICA.
  9. CHAPTER III. PETROGLYPHS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA.
  10. CHAPTER IV. EXTRA-LIMITAL PETROGLYPHS.
  11. CHAPTER V. CUP SCULPTURES
  12. CHAPTER VI. PICTOGRAPHS GENERALLY.
  13. CHAPTER VII. SUBSTANCES ON WHICH PICTOGRAPHS ARE MADE.
  14. CHAPTER VIII. INSTRUMENTS AND MATERIALS BY WHICH PICTOGRAPHS ARE MADE.
  15. CHAPTER IX. MNEMONIC.
  16. CHAPTER X. CHRONOLOGY.
  17. CHAPTER XI. NOTICES.
  18. CHAPTER XII. COMMUNICATIONS.
  19. CHAPTER XIII. TOTEMS, TITLES, AND NAMES.
  20. CHAPTER XIV. RELIGION.
  21. CHAPTER XV. CUSTOMS.
  22. CHAPTER XVI. HISTORY.
  23. CHAPTER XVII. BIOGRAPHY.
  24. CHAPTER XVIII. IDEOGRAPHY.
  25. CHAPTER XIX. CONVENTIONALIZING.
  26. CHAPTER XX. SPECIAL COMPARISONS.
  27. CHAPTER XXI. MEANS OF INTERPRETATION.
  28. CHAPTER XXII. CONTROVERTED PICTOGRAPHS.
  29. CHAPTER XXIII. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS.
  30. LIST OF WORKS AND AUTHORS CITED.

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