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the right arm of the last-mentioned figure is another little man in the act 

 of springing or advancing toward Turtle-following-his- Wife, from whose 

 mouth proceed two lines, curved or hooked at the end, as if drawing 

 the little figure towards him. It is suggested that the last-mentioned 

 part of the. pictograph is the substance of the communication, i. c, "come 

 to me," the larger figures with their name totems being the persons ad- 

 dressed and addressing. Between and above the two large figures 

 are fifty-three round objects intended for dollars. Both the Indian fig- 

 ures have on breech-cloths, corresponding with the information given 

 concerning them, which is that they are Cheyennes who are not all civ- 

 ilized or educated. 



The illustration, Figure 62, was made by a native Alaskan, and repre- 

 sents a native of the Teuinahs making a smoke signal to the people of 

 the village on the opposite shore of a lake, so that a boat may be sent to 

 cany the sigualist across. The K'niqamut band of the Tenina have 

 no boats, as they live inland, and therefore resort to signaling with 

 smoke when desiring transportation. On account of this custom they 

 are termed " Signal People." If the pictograph could be transmitted 

 in advance of the necessity, the actual use of the smoke sigual, with 

 consequent delay in obtaining the boat, would be avoided. 



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 Fig. 62. — Drawing of smoke signal. Alaska. 



1. Bepresents the mountain contour of the country. 



2. A Tenina Indian. 



3. Column of smoke. 



4. Bird's-eye view of the lake. 



5. The. settlement on opposite shore of lake. 



6. Boat crossing for the sigualist. 



Under this head of messages and communications may be included 

 the material objects sent as messages, many accounts of which are pub- 

 lished. It is to be expected that graphic representations of the same 

 or similar objects, with corresponding arrangement, should have similar 

 significance. Among the Indians painted arrows, bearing messages 

 when discharged, are familiar. The Turkish Selam, or flower letters, 

 are. in the same category. 



The following account of a " diplomatic packet" is extracted from 

 Schoolcraft, Vol. Ill, p. 306, et seq. : 



In the mouth of August, 1852, a message reached the President of the United States, 

 by a delegation of the Pueblos of Tesuque in New Mexico, offering him friendship 

 and intercommunication; and opening, symbolically, a road from the Moqui country 

 to Washington. * * * 



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