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appearing like small squares or a piece of net. See Figs, 484 and 485, 
supra. 
A quaint account of social designation by the arrangement of the 
hair among the Northeastern Algonquins is recorded in the Jesuit Rela- 
tions of 1639, pp. 44-5: 
When a girl or woman favors some one who seeks her, she cuts the hair in the 
fashion adopted by the maidens of France, hanging over the forehead, which is an 
ugly style as well in this country as in France; St. Paul forbidding women to show 
their hair. The women here wear their hair in bunches at the back of the head, in 
the form of a truss, which they decorate with beads when they have them. If, after 
marying some one, a woman leaves him without cause, or if, being promised and 
having accepted some present, she fails to keep her word, the presumptive husband 
sometimes cuts her hair, which renders her very despicable and prevents her from 
getting another spouse. 
There is a differentiation of this usage among the Pueblos generally, 
who, when accurate and particular in delineation, designate the women 
of that tribe by a huge coil of hair over either ear. This custom pre- 
vails also among the Coyotero Apaches, the women wearing the hair 
in a coil to denote a virgin, while the coil is absent in the case of a 
married woman. 
Regarding the apparent subject matter of pictographs an obvious 
distinction may be made between hunting and land scenes such as 
would be familiar to interior tribes and those showing fishing and 
aquatic habits common to seaboard and lacustrine peoples. Similar 
and more perspicuous modes of discrimination are available. The gen- 
eral scope of known history, traditions, and myths may also serve in 
identification. Known habits and fashions of existing or historically- 
known tribes have the same application, e. g., the portrayal on a draw- 
ing of a human face of labrets or nose rings limits the artist to defined 
regions, and then other considerations may further specify the work. 
When the specific pictorial style of distinctive peoples is ascertained 
its appearance on rocks may give evidence of their habitat and migra- 
tions, and on the other hand their authorship of the petroglyphs being 
received as a working hypothesis, the latter may be confirmed and the 
characters interpreted through the known practices and habits of the 
postulated authors. 
SECTION 3. 
AMBIGUOUS CHARACTERS WITH ASCERTAINED MEANING. 
Under this heading specimens of the card catalogue before mentioned 
are presented. The characters would not probably be recognized for 
the objects they are intended to represent and many of them might be 
mistaken for attempts to delineate other objects. A much larger num- 
ber of similar delineations are to be found under other headings in this 
work, especially in Chap. x11 on Totems, titles, and names. 
Prof. C. Thomas (c) gives a, b, ¢, and d, in Fig, 1281 as representing 
the turtle. 
