pictography

[ pik-tog-ruh-fee ]

noun

1. the use of pictographs; picture writing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pictography¹

1850–55; pictograph + -y ³; -graphy

Example Sentences

Pictography here records, that certain clans had killed bears and taken human scalps before that time.

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A comparison of the three justifies the assertion that the Kiowa have a recognized system of calendar pictography.

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Hence the name pictography which some scholars apply to this primitive form of writing.

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According to John Tanner, the symbol for the lightning in Ojibway pictography was a rattlesnake.

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It is a very old symbol, and is frequently found with the same meaning in cliff-houses and in ancient pictography.

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