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

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pictography

This system of figurative symbols I am inclined to call pictography, as it appears to me to be a peculiar and characteristic mode of picture-writing. 22d.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

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 John Wesley Powell

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 Jesse Walter Fewkes

Figures of apodal reptiles, with feathers represented on their heads, occur in Sikyatki pictography, although there is no resemblance in the markings of their bodies to those of modern pictures.

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 Jesse Walter Fewkes

The possibility that words recorded in native pictography may belong to an alien tongue, opens out a new field for future research.

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

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