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

Inscriptions recording events are less common, as they are more difficult to indicate with exactitude in this system of pictography.

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

It is not a difficult task to distinguish the pictography of these two peoples, wherever found.

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

He originated all things, through the instrumentality of the tortoise, which, in Algonquin pictography, was the symbol of the earth.

From Legends of The Kaw The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley by Carrie de Voe

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 Jesse Walter Fewkes

Thus pictography, a method of writing that belongs to the childhood of races, may be made to communicate ideas of a strikingly complex nature.

From The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton