700 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
The conception of covering executed by delineating the object covered 
beneath the mid- —| 
dle point of an * = | 
arch or curve, ap- Fic. 1142.—Night. Egyptian, 
pears also clearly in the Egyptian char- 
acters for night, Fig. 1142, Champol- 
lion (/). 
Fic. 1143.—Night. Mexican. 
Fia. 1141.—Sign for night. 
In Kingsborough (m) is the painting reproduced as Fig. 1143. 
This painting expresses the multitude of eyes, i. e., stars in the sky, 
and signifies the night. Eyesin Mexican paintings are painted exactly 
in this manner. 
CLOUD. 
Fig. 1144.—Cloud shield. Red-Cloud’s Census. This figure shows in 
conjunction with the disk, probably a shield but possibly the sun, a dim 
cloud, and below is a line apparently holding up clouds 
from which the raindrops have not yet begun to fall. This 
may be collated with the pictographs for rain and also for 
snow, as figured below. 
A Cheyenne sign for cloud is as follows: (1) Both 
hands partially closed, palms facing and near each other, 
brought up to level with or slightly above but in front 
eiresenen of the head; (2) suddenly separated sidewise, describing 
shield. a curve like a scallop; this scallop motion is repeated for 
“many clouds.” The same conception is in the Moki etchings, the 
PON eee 
Fig. 1145.—Clonds, Moki. 
three left-hand characters of Fig. 1145 (Gilbert MS.), and in variants 
from Oakley Springs, the two right-hand characters of the same figure. _ 
The Ojibwa pictogragh for cloud, reported in School- 
m= craft (n), is more elaborate, Fig. 1146. It is composed of 
ING the sign for sky to which that for clouds is added, the 
latter being reversed, as compared with the Moki etchings, 
Fic. .—C. 5 . . 5 
OO Miwa" and picturesquely hanging from the sky. 
