IDENTIFICATION OF TIIE PICTOGRAPHERS. 



The first point in the examination of a pictograph is to determine by 

 what body of people it was made. This is not only because the marks 

 or devices made by the artists of one tribe, or perhaps of one linguistic 

 stock if not disintegrated into separated divisions distant from each 

 other, may have a different significance from figures virtually tho same 



Fig. 147.— Algonkian petroglyph. Hillsborough, Pennsylvania. 



produced by another tribe or stock, but because the value of the record 

 is greatly enhanced when the recorders are known. In arriving at the 

 identification mentioned it is advisable to study : 1st. The general style 

 or type. 2d. The presence of characteristic objects. 3d. The apparent 

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