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Show NOTIFICATION. This is an important division of the purposes for which pictographs are used. The pictographs and the objective devices antecedent to pictographs nnder this head that have come immediately to the writer's attention, may be grouped as follows: 1st. Notice of departure, direction, etc. 2d. Notice of condition, suffering, etc. 3d. Warning and guidance. 4th. Charts of geographic features. 5th. Claim or demand. 6th. Messages or communications. 7th. Record of expedition. NOTICE OF DEPARTURE AND DIRECTION. 9 Dr. W. J. Hoffman obtained the original of the accompanying drawing, Fig. 47, from Naumoff an Alaskan native, in San Francisco, CaJifor- * T X° X ° #***•* " -*- 1 2 8 4 5 6 7 8 0 10 11 12 FIG. 47.- Alaskan notice of hunt nia, in 1882, also the interpretation, with text in the Kiatexamut dialect of the Innuit language. The drawing was in imitation of similar ones made by the natives, to inform their visitors or friends of their departure for a certain purpose. They are depicted npon strips of wood which are placed in conspicuona places near the doors of the habitations. Dr. Hoffman has published a brief account of this drawing as well as the succeeding one, in the Trans. Anthrop. Soc. Washington, II, 1883, p. 134, Fig. 3, and p. 132, Fig 2. The spelling adopted in the Innuit text, following in each case the explanation of characters, is in accordance with the system now used by the Bureau of Ethnology. The following is the explanation of the characters: 1. The speaker, with the right hand indicating himself, and with the left pointing in the direction to be taken. 2. Holding a boat paddle- going by boat. 3. The right hand to the side of the head, to denote sleep, and the left elevated with one finger elevated to signify one- one night. 147 |