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swallowed up drawing among the Indians of North
The Melanesians are as skilful in ornamentation as in drawing, their drawing having a tendency to become transformed into pictography; pictography has almost entirely swallowed up drawing among the Indians of North America, but it reappears among the Hyperboreans (Eskimo, Chukchi, Yakuts, Tlinkits).
— from The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker

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