NOTIFICATION. 



This is an important division of the purposes for which pictographs 

 are used. The pictographs and the objective devices antecedent to pic- 

 tographs under this head that have come immediately to the writer's at- 

 tention, may be grouped as follows: 1st. Notice of departure, direction, 

 etc. 2d. Notice of condition, suffering, etc. 3d. Warning and guidance. 

 4th. Charts of geographic features. 5th. Claim or demand. Gth. Mes- 

 sages or communications. 7th. .Record of expedition. 



NOTICE OF DEPARTURE AND DIRECTION. 



Dr. W. J. Hoffman obtained the original of the accompanying draw- 

 ing, Fig. 47, from Naumoff an Alaskan native, in San Francisco, Califor- 



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Fig. 47. — Alaskan notice of hunt. 



nia, in 1882, also the interpretation, with text in the Kiatexamut dialect 

 of the Innuit language. 



The drawing was in imitation of similar ones made by the natives, to 

 inform their visitors or friends of their departure for a certain purpose. 

 They are depicted upon strips of wood which are placed in conspicuous 

 places near the doors of the habitations. 



Dr. Hoffman has published a brief account of this drawing as well as 

 the succeeding one, in the Trans. Anthrop. Soc. Washington, II, 1883, 

 p. 134, Fig. 3, and p. 132, Fig 2. 



The spelling adopted in the Innuit text, following in each case the 

 explanation of characters, is in accordance with the system now used 

 by the Bureau of Ethnology. 



The following is the explanation of the characters : • 



1. The speaker, with the right hand indicating himself, and with the 

 left pointing in the direction to be taken. 



2. Holding a boat paddle — going by boat. 



3. The right hand to the side of the head, to denote sleep, and the left 

 elevated with one finger elevated to signify one — one night. 



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