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But as more and more symbols were catalogued�some 700 different ones at last count�scientists realized that they were characters used in pictography, a primitive writing system that uses pictures to convey ideas.

From Time Magazine Archive

The art was rudimentary and limited to crude pictography.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

Indians, American, pictography of, 223, 224; of Brazil, 227; life of, 272.

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

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 Voe, Carrie de

An interesting relation between gesture speech and pictography consists in the discovery that to the delineation of natural objects is added the representation of gesture signs.

From First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881 by Various