262 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
she was allowed 20 cents. She received credit for 10 cents on account 
of a plug of tobacco bought some time previously. 
In the illustration the decidedly slim form of the girl is portrayed, 
her hands holding out the basket which she had made. The unattached 
cross signifies 10 cents, which she probably received in cash, while the 
other cross is connected by a dotted line with the piece of plug tobacco 
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Fic. 178.—Book account. 
for which she had owed 10 cents. The attachment of the plug to the 
unpaid dime is amusingly ideographie. 
Another Indian, descended from the prehistoric 
fa Indians, was ealled “Lox,” the evil or tricksy deity, 
appearing as an animal having a jong body and tail 
and short legs, which is probably a wolverine, under 
which form Lox is generally depicted by the Passa- 
maquoddy. His account with the trader is given in 
Fig. 180, and shows that he brought 1 dozen ax 
handles, for which he received $1.50. 
Beneath the figure of Lox are 2 axes, the 12 short 
lines denoting the number of handles delivered, while 
Fig. 179.Book account, the dotted line to the right connects them with the 
amount received, which is designated by 1 one dollar mark and 5 
crosses or dime marks. 
Dr. Hoffman found in Los Angeles, 
California, a number of notched sticks, 
a 
a : which had beeninvented and used by 
ZA (a \ the Indians at the Mission of San 
Gabriel. They had chief herders, who 
had under their charge overseers of 
== __o the several classes of laborers, herders, 
ete. The chief herder was supplied 
i recens: witha stick of hard wood, measuring 
RAK XK" about 1 inch in breadth and thick- . 
Fig. 180.—Bookaccount. ness and from 20 to 24 inches long. 
The corners were beveled atthe handle. The general form of the stick 
is given in the upper character of Fig. 181, with the exception that 
the illustration is intentionally shortened so as to show both ends. 
