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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 11–33.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Heidi Bohaker Anishinaabe peoples of the Great Lakes region consistently signed treaties, petitions, and other paper documents from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries with pictographic representations of their nindoodem (clan) identities. Close study of these pictographs reveals...
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 12. Charcoal pictographs on a tree stump as illustrated by Ambrose Bierce in 1866 from a site in the Yellowstone River valley. Illustration by author
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Style and Rebus in an Emergent Script from Bolivia: The Koati Variant of Andean Pictographic Writing
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Sabine Hyland Abstract Andean pictographic writing, once considered the creation of foreign missionaries, is now recognized as a series of locally developed scripts that emerged after contact with alphabetic writing. However, the role of stylistic variation within the Andean pictographic scripts...
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Published: 01 January 2021
Figure 8. Vignette from the Lindesmith muslin. White Swan, Pictographic War Record, 1880, paint on muslin. Courtesy of the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame. Gift from the Rev. Eli Washington John Lindesmith, 1963.009.005.
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 403–432.
Published: 01 July 2001
...Bas van Doesburg This article analyzes the complex and sometimes deceiving relationship that might exist between the pictographic text and toponymic glosses in Oaxacan screenfolds from the sixteenth century. The case of the Codex Porfirio Díaz shows that these glosses represent not only boundaries...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (4): 723–741.
Published: 01 October 2002
...Russell Thornton This is a discussion of a newly found winter count of a Lakota tiyospaye(extended kinship group) that eventually ended up on the Rosebud Reservation created for the Sicangu (Brule). The count is on muslin, measuring 89 centimeters by 176 centimeters. It consists of 136 pictographs...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Figure 8. Vignette from the Lindesmith muslin. White Swan, Pictographic War Record, 1880, paint on muslin. Courtesy of the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame. Gift from the Rev. Eli Washington John Lindesmith, 1963.009.005. ...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 281–331.
Published: 01 April 2000
...Michel Oudijk; Maarten Jansen The Lienzo de Guevea, an important Zapotec pictographic document from 1540,contains historical information about the geographic expanse and the lords of the indigenous community of Guevea. An extensive investigation has clarified the complex relation between...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 99–122.
Published: 01 January 2014
... this was predominantly an oral genre and, less frequently, one that employed pictographs drawn on tanned bison hides as mnemonic devices. The article focuses on the continued relevance of a genre steeped in the oral tradition. It argues that despite having access to writing and familiarity with Western historical genres...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 301–327.
Published: 01 April 2014
...María Castañeda de la Paz The Mapa de Otumba is a colonial map from central Mexico with pictographic elements that represents a part of the señorío (lordship) of Otumba with a number of its subject towns. An analytical problem of working with this document is a lack of an accompanying text, making...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 101–127.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Chris Arnett; Jesse Morin Abstract This article argues that the red-ocher paintings (pictographs) in Coast Salish Tsleil-Waututh territory in Indian Arm, British Columbia, were made around the time of contact in specific response to demographic collapse caused by smallpox. Tsleil-Waututh people...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 793–804.
Published: 01 October 2014
... of Texas Press , 2013 . xxxii + 174 pp., synoptic plates, color plates, notes, glossary, bibliography, index . $60 cloth.) Pictograph to Alphabet—and Back: Reconstructing the Pictographic Origins of the Xajil Chronicle . By Hill Robert M. II . ( Philadelphia : American Philosophical...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 215–235.
Published: 01 April 2016
... booklets made by indigenous pictographers that lay out the basic texts of Roman Catholic doctrine in rows of images, a few maintained from pre-Columbian writing but most of them colonial inventions, with some consistencies but little standardization across the genre. They date to the mid-seventeenth...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 217–240.
Published: 01 April 2015
... . Bernard H. Russell Ryan Gery W. 1998 Text Analysis . In Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology . Russell Bernard H. , ed. Pp. 595 – 646 . Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira . Blish Helen Heather 1967 A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux . Lincoln : University...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 697–705.
Published: 01 October 2003
... of Pictographs of the North American Indians. In Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1882-1883 . Pp. 3 -256. Washington,dc: Smithsonian Institution. Mallery, Garrick 1887 A Calender of the Dakota Nation. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories 3 : 3 -25...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 409–420.
Published: 01 July 2015
... approaching a popular literacy. Even
so, probably only a small percentage of the Nahua population could read,
mostly elite males; even fewer could read pictographic writing (for Yucatec
Maya, see Chuchiak 2010). While writing in various and at times combined
forms occurred even in legal domains...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 358–360.
Published: 01 April 2021
... on what the author calls the “pictographic paradigm” of Codex Boturini, alternatively titled the Tira de la peregrinación de los Mexica . The codex, which remains unfinished, displays traditional Indigenous features in the use of amatl paper in a screen-fold format, and features black and red...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 129–156.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Figure 12. Charcoal pictographs on a tree stump as illustrated by Ambrose Bierce in 1866 from a site in the Yellowstone River valley. Illustration by author ...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 211–237.
Published: 01 April 2012
... Collecting Lakota Histories: Winter Count Pictographs and Texts in the National Anthropological Archives . American Indian Art 26 ( 1 ): 82 – 103 . Codex Selden 1964 Codex Selden 3135 (A.2) . Mexico City : Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología . Conklin William 1982 The Information...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 653–682.
Published: 01 October 2011
... and the Spanish king and in a pictographic narrative
of the conquest of the Sierra Norte painted on a large piece of cotton cloth,
known as the Lienzo of Analco (¬g. 1
The Protagonists: Naborías
Lienzos recorded histories, geographies, and geneaologies of Mesoameri-
can indigenous communities. We...
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