740 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
is Fig. 659, but it will be noticed that the personages are repeated, the 
scene changed, and the time proceeds, so that there is no view of speci- 
fied objects at any one time and place. 
Fig. 1254 shows two drawings from Kejimkoojik, N. S., reduced to 
one-fourth, each supposed to represent a moose, though possibly one 
of them is a caribou, and the mode of execution vividly suggests some 
of the examples of prehistoric art found in Europe and familiar by 
repeatedly published illustrations. 
Fig. 1255 is the etching of a hand from the Kejimkoojik rocks, re- 
duced one-half. Its peculiarity con- 
sists in the details by which the lines 
of the palm and markings on the balls 
of the thumb and fingers are shown. 
If this is the real object of the design 
it Shows close observation, though it 
is not suggested that any connection 
with the psuedo-science of palmistry 
is to be inferred. 
In connection with this drawing the 
following translated remarks in Ver- 
handl. Berlin. Gesellsch. fiir Anthrop. 
(d), may be noted: 
The frequency with which partial represen- 
tations of the eye are met with appeared to 
me so striking that I requested Mr. Jacobsen to ask the Bella Coola Indians whether 
they had any special idea in employing the eye so frequently. To my great surprise 
the person addressed pointed to the palmar surface of his finger tips and to the fine 
lineaments which the skin there presents; in his opinion a rounded or longitudinal 
field, such as appears between the converging or parallel lines, also means an eye, 
and the reason of this is that originally each part of the body terminated in an organ 
of sense, particularly an eye, and was only afterward made to retrovert into such 
Via. 1255.—Hand, Kejimkoojik. 
rudimentary conditions. 
The lower character in Pl. Lit is copied from Rudolph Cronau (ce) 
Geschichte der Solinger Klingenindustrie, where it is presented as an- 
illustration of the knights of the thirteenth century, after a sketch in 
a MS. of the year 1220, in the library of the University of Leipsig. 
The upper character in the same plate is a copy of a drawing made 
in 1884 by av Apache Indian at Anadarko, although the insignia of the 
riders are more like those used by the Cheyenne than those of the 
Apache. A striking similarity will be noticed in the motive of the two 
sketches of the mounted warriors and their steeds as well as in their 
decorations, from which in Europe the devices called heraldic were 
differentiated. Doubtless still better examples could be obtained to 
compare the degree of artistic skill attained by the several draftsmen, 
but these are used as genuine, convenient, and typical. See also the 
Mexican representation of horses and riders under the heading of 
meteors, Fig. 1224, 
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