pictography

American  

[pik-tog-ruh-fee] / pɪkˈtɒg rə fi /

noun

1. the use of pictographs; picture writing.

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Etymology

Origin of pictography

1850–55; pictograph + -y ³; see -graphy

Example Sentences

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pictography

There is little doubt that many examples of aboriginal pictography exist in this neighborhood, which would reward exploration with interesting data.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

Army, continued the study, by researches and correspondence, of sign language and pictography.

From Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by Powell, John Wesley

For this reason the Chipeway pictography represents him brandishing a rattlesnake, the symbol of the electric flash,168-1 and sometimes they called him the Northwest Wind, which in the region they inhabit usually brings the thunder-storms.

From The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

Practically little is known of the pictography of this part of the Verde valley people, although it has an important bearing on the distribution of the cliff dwellers of the Southwest.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

In this connection it is noteworthy that in Mexican pictography the faces of women are usually painted yellow—the color of the West=the female region.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia