698 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
the above gesture appears in the Moki pueblo drawings for morning 
and sunrise. 
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Fic. 1131.—Morning. Arizona. 
Fig. 1131 shows various representations of sunrise from Oakley 
Springs, Arizona. 
J. B. Dunbar (b), in The Pawnee Indians, says: 
Asan aid to the memory the Pawnees frequently made use of notches eut in a 
stick or some similar device for the computation of nights (for days were counted 
by nights), or even of months and years. Pictographically a day or daytime was 
represented by a six or eight pointed star as a symbol of the sun, A simple cross 
(a star) was a symbol of a night and a crescent represented a moon or lunar month. 
A common Indian gesture for / 
(} > day is when the index and thumb A 
form a circle (remaining fingers 
Fic. 1182.—Day- closed) and are passed from east to 
west. 
Fig. 1132 shows a pictograph found in & 
Owens valley, California, a similar one being 
reported in the Ann. Rep. Geog. Survey West 
of the 100th Meridian for 1876, Washington, 
1876, pl. opp. p. 326, in which the circle may 
indicate either day or month (both these ges- 
tures having the same execution), the course of 
the sun or moon being represented perhaps 
in mere contradistinction to the vertical line, 
or perhaps the latter signifies one. 
Fig. 1133 is a pictograph made by the Co- 
yotero Apaches, found at Camp Apache, in 
Arizona, reported in the Tenth Ann. Rep. U. 
S. Geol. and Geogr. Survey of the Terr., Wash- 
ington, 1878, Pl. Lxxvir. The sun and the ten — Fic.1133.—Days. Apache. 
spots of approximately the same shape represent the days, eleven, 
which the party passed in traveling through the country. The sepa- 
rating lines are the nights, and may include the conception of cov- 
ering over and consequent obscurity referred to in connection with 
the pictographs for night. 
The left-hand character in Fig. 1134, copied from Copway (h), repre- 
sents smooth water or clear day. 
