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CHARACTERS ON MOKI PETROGLYPH. 



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Figure 100 shows various representations of the sun. 



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Figure 107 shows various representations of sunrise. 



It is of interest in this connection that in the pictorial notation of 

 the Laplanders the sun bears its usual figure of a man's head, rayed, as 

 reported in Schoolcraft, op. cit. I, 4120. See drawings in Scheffer's Hist, 

 of Lapland, London ed., 1704:. 



It may be desirable also to note, to avoid misconception, that where, 

 through this paper, mention is made of particulars under the headings 

 of Customs, Religious, etc., which might be made the subject of graphic 

 illustration in pictographs, and for that reason should be known as pre- 

 liminary to the. attempted interpretation of the latter, the suggestion is 

 not given as a mere hypothesis. Such objective marks and conceptions 

 of the character indicated which can readily be made objective, are in 

 fact frequently found in pictographs and have been understood by 

 means of the preliminary information to which reference is made. 

 When interpretations obtained through this line of study are properly 

 verified they can take places in the card-catalogue little inferior to those 

 of interpretations derived directly from aboriginal pictographers. 



HOMOMORPHS AND SYMMORPHS. 



It has been already mentioned that characters substantially the same, 

 or hoinomorphs, made by one set of people, have a different signification 

 among others. Differing forms for the same general conception or idea 

 are also noticed. These may be termed symmorphs. Some examples 



