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PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



can be estimated by a comparison of those of the Ojibwa, Dakota, 

 Haida, and Innuit of Alaska presented in various parts of this paper. 



Fig. 153. — Sboahouian petroglyph. Utah. 



PRESENCE OF CHARACTERISTIC OBJECTS. 



With regard to the study of the individual characters themselves to 

 identify the delineators of pictographs, the various considerations of 



fauna, religion, customs, tribal signs, indeed, 

 most of the headings of this paper will be ap- 

 plicable. 1 1 is impracticable now to give fur- 

 ther details in this immediate connection, 

 except to add to similar particulars before 

 presented the following notes with regard to 

 the arrangement of hair and display of paint 

 in identification. 



A custom obtains among the Absaroka, 

 ■which, when depicted in pictographs, as is 

 frequently done, serves greatly to facilitate 

 identification of the principal actors in events 

 recorded. This consists in wearing false hair, 

 attached to the back of the head and allowed 

 a^t^ to hang down over the back. Horse hair, 



P taken from the tail, is arranged in .S or 10 



Fig. 154. — Skoshoniaii rock-painting. .1 , 1 , ,, . . ~ ■, 



Utah strands, each about as thick as a linger, and 



