MALLERY.] HUMAN FORM. 703 
HUMAN FORM. 
Fig. 1155.—a among the Arikara signifies men. The characters are 
used in connection with horse- 
shoes, to denote ‘mounted men” bd, CO Nn 
In other pictographs such spots or e fe 
dots are merely numerical. cis, e Away 5 | —- 
drawn by the Kiatéxamut branch  q b c d € 
of the Innuits for man. It is an ia. 1155.—Human form. 
abbreviated form and rare. d, drawn by the Blackfeet, signifies ‘‘ Man- 
dead.” This is from a pictograph in Wind River mountains, taken 
from Jones’s (c) Northwestern Wyoming. e¢isalsoa Kiatéxamut Innuit 
drawing for man. This figure is armless; generally represents the per- 
son addressed. 
Fig. 1156.—a is also a Kiatéxamut Innuit drawing for man. The 
Zz» person makes the gesture for nega- 
tion. b and ¢, from a Californian 
y t ik () petroglyph, are men also gestur- 
: ing negation. d, from School- 
a b g, d craft (v), is the Ojibwa “ symbol” 
Fic. 1156.—Human form. iS 5 
for disabled man. 
Fig. 1157.—a is the Kiatéxamut 
Innuit drawing for Shaman. 3, 
used by the same tribe, represents Se 
man supplicating. c, reproduced 7 
a Cc 
from Schooleraft (w), is the Ojibwa 
representative figure or man. 
Fig. 1158.—a, from Schoolcraft, loc. cit., is an Ojibwa drawing of a 
headless body. 0, from the same, 
xX I A A is another Ojibwa figure for a head- 
a2 6 ps z N less body, perhaps female. c, con- 
z = tributed by Mr. Gilbert Thomp- 
son, is a drawing for a man, made 
by the Mokiin Arizona. d, reproduced from Schooleratt (w), is a draw- 
ing from the banks of the River Yenesei, Siberia, by Von Strahlen- 
berg (a). e is given by Dr. Edkins, op. cit., p. 4, as the Chinese char- 
acter for, and originally a picture of, a man. 
The representation of a headless body does not always denote death. 
An example is given in Fig. 1159, a, taken from an ivory drill-bow in 
the collection of the Alaska Commercial Company, of San Francisco, 
California. It was made by the Aigaluxamut natives of Alaska. As 
the explanation gives no suggestion of a fatal casualty, the concept 
may be that the hunter got lost or ‘“‘lost his head,” according to the 
colloquial phrase. 
The figures of men in a canoe are represented by the Kiatéxamut 
Innuit of Alaska, as shown in the same figure, ). The right-hand up- 
ward stroke represents the bow of the boat, while the two lines below 
Fia@, 1157.—Human form. 
Fie. 1158.—Human form. 
