756 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
That they do so is shown by the head of the animal, e, taken from 
the Cortesian Codex. This is one of the many examples in which the 
significance of drawings can be ascertained from a series of conven- 
tionalized forms. Other instances are given in the present paper, and 
Wz. « 
WA 
B 
c 
d 
1G. 1281.—Turtle. Maya. 
more in the works of Mr. W. H. Holmes, published in several of the 
Annual Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology. 
Fig. 1282 is given in the last cited volume and page 
as the symbol of the armadillo of Yucatan. 
Fig.1282-Arma- The drawings of which Fig. 1283 presents copies were 
dillo. Yueatan- made by Dakota tribesmen: a, fox; b, black fox: c, wolf; 
d, black deer; e, beaver; f, spotted horse; g, porcupine; h, white hawk ; 
Fig. 1283.—Dakota drawings. 
i, bald eagle; k, crow; 1, swallow; m and n, war bonnet; 0, leggins; p, 
gun; q, pipe. 
The characters in Fig. 1284 are Ojibwa drawings. With the excep- 
