Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology
Title | Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 720 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Cherokee Indians |
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Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology
Title | Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology PDF eBook |
Author | Cyrus Thomas |
Publisher | Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2012-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781407705392 |
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Title | Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 764 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | |
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Ethnology of the Kwakiutl
Title | Ethnology of the Kwakiutl PDF eBook |
Author | Franz Boas |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 712 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
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Pictographs of the North American Indians
Title | Pictographs of the North American Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Garrick Mallery |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 2022-11-13 |
Genre | History |
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A pictograph is a writing by picture. It conveys and records an idea or occurrence by graphic means without the use of words or letters. The execution of the pictures of which it is composed often exhibits the first crude efforts of graphic art, and their study in that relation is of value. When pictures are employed as writing the conception intended to be presented is generally analyzed, and only its most essential points are indicated, with the result that the characters when frequently repeated become conventional, and in their later forms cease to be recognizable as objective portraitures. A general deduction made after several years of study of pictographs of all kinds found among the North American Indians is that they exhibit very little trace of mysticism or of esotericism in any form. They are objective representations and cannot be treated as ciphers or cryptographs in any attempt at their interpretation. A knowledge of the customs, costumes, including arrangement of hair, paint, and all tribal designations, and of their histories and traditions is essential to the understanding of their drawings, for which reason some of those particulars known to have influenced pictography are set forth in this book, and others are suggested which possibly had a similar influence.
Cuba Before Columbus
Title | Cuba Before Columbus PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Raymond Harrington |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Cuba |
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Picture-writing of the American Indians
Title | Picture-writing of the American Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Garrick Mallery |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Picture-writing, Indian |
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