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Show MALLKBT.] MESSAGES AND COMMUNICATIONS. 161 the right arm of the last- mentioned figure is another little man in the act of springing or advancing toward Turtle- following- his- Wife, from whose mouth proceed two lines, curved or hooked at the end, as if drawing the little figure towards him. It is suggested that the last- mentioned part of the pictograph is the substance of the communication, i. e., " come to me," the larger figures with their name totems being the persons addressed and addressing. Between and above the two large figures are fifty- three round objects intended for dollars. Both the Indian figures have on breech- cloths, corresponding with the information given concerning them, which is that they are Gbeyennes who are not all civilized or educated. The illustration, Figure 62, was made by a native Alaskan, and represents a native of the Teninahs making a smoke signal to the people of the village on the opposite shore of a lake, so that a boat may be sent to carry the signalist across. The K'niqamut band of the Tenina have no boats, as they live inland, and therefore resort to signaling with smoke when desiring transportation. On account of this custom they are termed " Signal People." If the pictograph could be transmitted in advance of the necessity, the actual use of the smoke signal, with consequent delay in obtaining the boat, would be avoided. 5 0 4 2 3 FIG. 62.- Drawing of smoke signal. Atoka. 1. Represents the mountain contour of the country. 2. A Tenina Indian. 3. Column of smoke. 4. Bird's- eye view of the lake. 5. The settlement on opposite shore of lake. 6. Boat crossing for the signalist. Under this head of messages and communications may be included the material objects sent as messages, many accounts of which are published. It is to be expected that graphic representations of the same or similar objects, with corresponding arrangement, should have similar significance. Among the Indians painted arrows, bearing messages when discharged, are familiar. The Turkish Selam, or flower letters, are in the same category. The following account of a " diplomatic packet" is extracted from Schoolcraft, Vol. Ill, p. 306, et seq.: In the month of August, 1P52, a message reached the President of the United States, by a delegation of the Pueblos of Tesuque in New Mexico, offering him friendship and intercommunication; and opening, symbolically, a road from the Moqui country to Washington. • • • 4 ETH 11 |