688 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
In b of the same pictograph, alongside of a tangle of various figures, always formed 
of geometric lines, we distinguished, at the left, three points; in the middle a col- 
lection of lines representing a fish. Let us note, finally, the dots which, as in the 
preceding case, run out from certain lines. 
Fig, 1105.—Venezuelan petroglyphs. 
The design of ¢, while qvite as complex, has quite another arrangement. At the 
left we see again the figure of the circumferences surrounding a dot, and these are 
surmounted by a series of triangles; at the bottom there are two little curves 
terminated by dots. At d two analogous objects are represented; they may be what 
Huniboldt took to be arms or household implements. 
In the above figure, the uppermost character, a, is similar to various 
representations of the “sky,” as depicted upon the birch-bark midé/ 
Fig. 1106.—Venezuelan petroglyphs. 
records of the Ojibwa. The lower characters are similar to several 
examples presented under the Shoshonean types, particularly to those 
in Owens valley, California. 
