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Definition of Pictographs
1. pictograph [n] - See also: pictograph
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pictographs
Literary usage of Pictographs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society (1892)
"A PEW TUSAYAN pictographs • ~t * BY J. WALTER FEWKES. A study of Tusayan pictographs
has interested me from the possible information which they are thought ..."
2. The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1907)
"The majority of these clusters of river pictographs, especially those along the Rio
... CAVE pictographs Numerous pictographs are found also in the caves, ..."
3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1904)
"This contained pictographs which in themselves are suggestive of the calendar
system and the ... inches, and is full of both symbols and pictographs. ..."
4. Arts of the World: Comparative Art Studies by Edwin Swift Balch (1920)
"The most notable decorations of the Plains Amerinds are the pictographs on bison
robes and deer skins. Usually they record events in the life of the maker. ..."
5. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1889)
"RECENTLY DISCOVERED ALGONKIN pictographs. By Col. ... Schoolcraft, issued in
1863, upon the pictographs of the Ojibwa, giving the impression that they were ..."
6. Glacier National Park: Its Trails and Treasures by Mathilde Edith Holtz, Katharine Isabel Bemis (1917)
"Interpretation of historical pictographs made by South Piegan Indian Chiefs:
Chief Little Dog: Little Dog is now seventy- five years old and is one of the ..."
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