Ao PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Same figure, c, four-fifths real size, is the neck of a Marajo vase rep- 
resenting, by engraving and painting, all the conventional characters 
of the different parts of the human face employed by the mound-build- 
ers of Marajo. This vase preserves perfectly the primitive colors, which 
show vermilion lines on a white ground. A double protuberance from 
each ear, the design which forms the eyes, and that which surrounds 
and outlines the mouth, the nose, and the ears, are characteristic traces 
of the decorative art of the human face which few heads present in 
such perfection. 
Same figure, d, four-fifths real size, is the neck of a Marajo vase more 
simple than the preceding one, but with more regular and distinet 
features. 
Fic. 1174.—Marajo vases. 
The Brazilian system above illustrated, which reduces the face to 
certain main lines and finally to the eyes, in such manner that the eyes 
are placed apart and each is put by itself in a symmetric field, has its 
parallel in North America. This is the practice of the Bella Coola In- 
dians and their neighbors at the present day. They divide the surface, 
to be ornamented into zones and fields, by means of broad horizontal 
and vertical lines, each field containing, according to its position, now 
a complete face, now only an indication of it, the especial indication 
