460 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
white. They have the appearance of feathers, but also may represent 
tongues and signify voice, sound issuing from the mouth, and corre- 
spond in some respect to those drawn by the Mexicans with that signi- 
ficance, of Which exampies are given in this work, Chap. xx, See. 2. 
The considerable number of these tongue-like figures suggests intensity 
and denotes loud voice, or, as given literally, “loud talker,” that being 
the name of the victim. 
It is, however, to be noted that ‘ Shield,” an Oglala Dakota, contends 
that the character signifies Feather-Shield, the name of a warrior for- 
merly living at the Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota. 
Designation of an object, as a name, by means of a connecting line 
is mentioned in Kingsborough (a). Pedro de Alvarado, one of the 
companions of Cortez, was red-headed. Designating him, the Mexicans 
called him Tonatihu, the “Sun,” and in their picture-writing his name 
was represented by their conventional character for the sun attached 
to his person by a line. 
Fic. 639.—Mexican names, 
Other examples are now presented both of the linear connection and 
of the iconographic figuration by the old Mexicans. 
In Kingsborough (b) is a pictograph of Chimalpopoca, which name 
signifies a smoking shield, here reproduced as Fig. 639 (a). The smok- 
ing shield is connected with the head by a line, and the form of smoke 
should be noticed in comparison with the representation of flame and 
of voice by the same pictors. 
The same authority and volume, p. 135 (illustration in Vol. I, Pt. 4, 
Pl. Vv), gives the name and illustration (reproduced in the same Fig., 
b) of Ytzcohuatl, the signification of which name is a serpent armed 
with knives. The knives refer to the Itzli stone. : 
In the same volume, p. 137, is the name Face of Water, with the cor- 
responding illustration in Vol. 1, Pt. 4, Pl. 12 (here Pl. x1tc). The 
drops of water are falling profusely from the face. 
