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Identifier: archivesofaborig04scho (find matches)
Title: Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. dn United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. cn
Subjects: Indians of North America United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation
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VOL. TV. (4th Paper.) A. INDIAN PICTOGRAPHY. 1. Ogellala Inscription on a Buffalo robe. 2. Comanche Inscription on tlie Scapula of a Bison. 3. Symbols on the trunk of a Tree in California. 4. Symbols from a Sandstone Rock on the Little Colorado, in New Mexico. 5. Symbolic Transcript from a Rock in New Mexico, in Lat. about 34°, 40. 6. Symbolic Characters from the Valley of the Gila. 7. Pictographic Inscription from Utah. 8. Mixed, or Indo-European Inscription by a Utah Indian. B. ORAL TRADITIONS AND FICTIONS FROM THE WIGWAM. 1. A Shawnee Tradition purporting to be Historical. 2. Thanayeison, a Western Iroquois, to Conrad Wiser at Kaskaskia, in 1748. — An Allegorical Account of the first coming of the Whites. C. INDIAN SHREWDNESS AND BUSINESS TALENT IN PUBLIC SPEAKING. 1. Wabashaw before the British Commanding Officer at Drummond Island, at the close of the war of 1812. 2. The Shawnee Prophet before the U. S. Agent at Waughpekenota, Ohio, on agreeing to migrate to the West, in 1827.
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INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY AND CHARACTER A. INDIAN PICTOGRAPHY, FROM ROCKS, TREES, ANI-MALS, BONES, AND DRESSED SKINS. 1. Ogellala Figures on a Buffalo Robe.Plate 31. Br the term pictography, it is intended to designate that mode of ideographicnotation which is pecuharly characteristic of the United States Indians. The termpicture-writing has been apphed to that improved form of it which was common tothe Toltecs and Aztecs, and which excited such attention on the conquest of Mexico.This advanced state of the art consisted chiefly in a more systematic position, andexact and uniform size of the symbols, in their being generally colored in deep andbright hues, and in the invention of sub-symbols, to denote the several tlilpalli, andother periods of their astronomical system. But there was no evidence that it hadextended, in this improved form, farther north than the hmits of the semi-civilizedtribes of Mexico. It was already the peculiar business of picture-writers and pictorialclerks, who de