footpaths or snow-shoe tracks where the line of kelhign sisel, or sable 
dead falls, extends from one hunting camp to another, between two 
lakes or rivers. 
ofaman. (See Fig. 1046.) This drawing is either incised upon a piece 
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350 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
to complete the topography. The two trails, m and n, are designated 
by notches showing foot-path or snow-shoe tracks. The Abnaki have 
The Ottawa and the Pottawatomi Indians indicate hunger and starva- 
tion by drawing a black line across the breast or stomach of the figure 
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of wood, or drawn on it with a mixture of powdered charcoal and glue 
water, or red ocher. The piece of wood is then attached to a tree or 
fastened to a pole, and erected near the lodge on a trail, where it will 
be observed by passers by, who are thus besought to come to the rescue - 
of the sufferer who erected the notice. 
Fig. 459 illustrates information with regard to distress in another 
village, which occasioned the departure of the party giving the notifi- 
cation. The drawing was made in 1882 by the Alaskan, Naumoff, in 
imitation of drawings used at his home. The designs are traced upon 
