696 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
(a), Shows the top of an heraldic column of the Sentlae (Sun) gens of 
the Kwakiutl Indians in Aleit bay, British Columbia, which represents 
the sun surrounded by wooden 
rays. A simpler form is seen 
in the right character of the 
saine figure where the face of 
the sun is also fastened to the 
TG TE — aegis top of a pole. The author, Dr. 
Boas, states that Fig. 1125 is the sun mask used by the same gens in 
their dance. This presents another mode in which the common sym- 
bolic connection of the eagle (the beak of which bird is apparently 
shown) with the sun is indicated. 
Fic. 1124.—Sun. Kwakintl. Fic. 1125.—Sun mask. Kwakiutl. 
Prof. Cyrus Thomas, in Aids to the Study of the Manuscript Troano, 
Sixth Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethn., p. 348, gives the left-hand character in 
Fig. 1126 as representing the sun. 
Fria. 1126.—Suns. 
General Forlong (a) states that the middle device of the same figure 
represents the sun as Mihr, the fertilizer of the seed. 
Dr. Edkins (e) gives the right-hand device of the same figure as a 
picture of the sun. Originally it was a circle with a stroke or dot 
in the middle. 
MOON. 
A common Indian gesture sign for moon, month, is the right hand 
closed, leaving the thumb and index extended, but 
curved to form a half circle and the hand held toward 
the sky, in a position which is illustrated in Fig. 1127, 
to which curve the Moki drawing, the upper left-hand 
a) device in Fig. 1128, and the identical form in the ancient 
rae TREE Chinese have an obvious resemblance. 
for moon, 
