672 PICTURE-WRITING OF 
them of their sins; 
bark.” 
THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
others write, after their manner, on small pieces of 
This is but the application of the ideographic writing on birch 
bark by the converts to the ceremonies and stories of the Christian 
religion, as the same 
tions. 
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Fic. 1084.—Religious story. 
art had been long used for their aboriginal tradi- 
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Sicasica. 
Examples of pictographic work, done in a spirit similar to that above 
mentioned, are 
given by Wiener (g), describing the illustrations of 
which Figs. 1084 and 1085 are copies, one-fifth real size. 
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In the most distant part of Pe- 
‘goth duy ru, in the valley of Paucartambo, 
ay Hat Sicasica, the history of the pas- 
8 Oheut u @z sion of Christ was found written 
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oe UFO that the Indians of Ancon and 
OUA the north of the coast were ac- 
aly quainted with before the con- 
PQ WEUS quest. (Fig. 1084.) The drawings 
UN#*OOtH were made with a pencil, proba- 
bly first dipped in a nae rarcor 
gum and mandioc flour, This 
tissue is of a dark brown and 
the designs are of avery bright 
red. 
The 1085, 
which was found at Paucartambo, 
was written in an analogous sys- 
tem on old Dutch paper. The 
designs are red and blue. 
second series, Fig. 
In an article by Terrien de Lacouperie (/) is the following condensed 
