MALLERY. ] PICTOGRAPHS—-SUN—STAR—DAY. 371 
constitutes the Egyptian character for light. The rays emanating from 
the whole disk appear in Figs. 160 and 161, taken from a MS. contrib- 
uted by Mr. G. K. GILBERT of the United States Geo- 
logical Survey, from the rock etchings 
i 
Q of the Moqui pueblos in Arizona, The TF 
8454 » same authority gives from the same 
Hig. 158. Fie. 159. locality Figs. 162 and 163 for sun, Fic.160. Fic. 161. 
which may be distinguished from several other similar etchings for star 
also given by him, Figs. 164, 165, 166, 167, by always showing some indi- 
cation of a face, the latter being absent in the characters denoting star. 
With the above characters for sun com- 
pare Fig. 168, found at Cuzco, Peru, and 
taken from Wiener’s Pérou et Bolivie, 
Paris, 1880, p. 706. 
The Ojibwa pictograph for sun is seen 
in Fig. 169, taken from Schooleraft, loc. 
JS EE cit., v. 1, pl. 56, Fig. 67. ITEL UE 
A gesture sign for sunrise, morning, is: Forefinger of right hand 
crooked to represent half of the sun’s disk and pointed or extended to the 
left, then slightly elevated. 
(Cheyenne II.) In this connec- 
tion it may be noted that when 
the gesture is care- 
+ fully made in open 
country the pointing 
3. 164. x. 165. s. 166. +. 167. 
tate iGo AG ING Uns Fis. 167 Would generally be 
to the east, and the body turned so that its left would be in that direc- 
tion. In aroom in a city, or under circumstances where the points of 
the compass are not specially attended to, the left side sup- 
poses the east, and the gestures relating to sun, day, &ce., are 
made with such reference. The half only of the disk 
represented in the above gesture appears in the fol- 
oe lowing Moqui pueblo etchings for morning and ge. 168. 
sunrise, Figs. 170, 171, and 172. (Gilbert, J/S.) 
A common gesture for day is when the index and thumb form a circle 
(remaining fingers closed) and are passed from east to west. 
Fig. 173 shows a pictograph found in Owen's Valley, California, a sim- 
ee 
Fic 170. Fic. 171. Fic. 172. Fic. 173. 
ilar one being reported in the Ann. Rep. Geog. Survey west of the 100th 
Meridian for 1876, Washington, 1876, pl. opp. p. 326, in which the circle 
may indicate either day or month (both these gestures having the same 
execution), the course of the sun or moon being represented perhaps in 
mere contradistinction to the vertical line, or perhaps the latter signi- 
fies one. 
