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PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



was the distance the person in No. 1 traveled to reach the country for 

 which started. 



No. 4. Bepresents a shell, and denotes the primary object of the 

 journey. Shells were needed for making ornaments aud to trade. 



Fig. 139.— Bark record from Red Lake, Minnesota. 



No. 5. Two parallel lines are here iuserted to mark the eud of the 

 present record and the beginning of another. 



