Pictographs
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Choice: American Indian Culture
- Categories: Social Science
- Subcategories: Painting, Painters, Drawing, Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: United States
Article abstract: “Pictograph” literally means “picture writing” and refers to any image intended to communicate a thought, idea, belief, or record of events. Pictographs were widely used by native people in the Americas, and they appear on cave walls, rocks, skins, bone, bark, pottery, sticks, and later cloth and paper. They extend from historic times into the early twentieth century
Communication. Artistic skill was not an important factor in picture writing, and since pictographic images were intended to communicate and to be widely understood by...
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