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Zélie St Pierre darting
exclaimed Zélie St. Pierre, darting forwards; adding with officiousness, "I will dress her myself."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Zabdiel should pay dearly
I strangled an oath in my throat; I vowed that Uncle Zabdiel should pay dearly for his treachery.
— from Dead Man's Love by Tom Gallon

Zebedee so poor dear
We had brought a supply of delicacies from Schmidt's in Richmond and I had a fine ham, cooked by Mammy Susan's own method, which I produced from my trunk as a surprise for Zebedee, so "poor, dear Blanche" did not have to officiate at this meal but could spend her time getting her sleeping porch in order and unpacking her huge basket of clothes.
— from Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed

zelatus sum pro Domino
This was held up by fat little angels, the swollen infants of the sculptors of that period, and floating in the air was a scroll bearing the motto of the order: " Zelo, zelatus sum, pro Domino Deo Exercituum ."
— from The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

Zuñi sand painting described
glyphs of, 637-639 California Indians, pictographs by, on feather blankets, 207 coloring matter used by, 221 method of keeping accounts of, 262-263 mode of challenge of, 362 mode of collecting debts by, 374 tattoo of, 406 face painting by, 619 emblems of royalty, of 633 Canada, linguistic work in, XVII petroglyphs in, 37-45 Canadian Indians, quill pictographs of, 207 Canary islands, pictographs of, compared with California petroglyphs, 58 , 59 petroglyphs in, 183-185 Canyon de Chelly, New Mexico, petroglyphs in, 96 Canyon Segy, Arizona, petroglyphs in, 50 Cara Pintada, Mexico, 131 Cardinal points, colors attributed to, 623-626 Carisa plain, California, petroglyphs in, 68 Carson river, petroglyphs on, 92 Catlin, George, cited, 741 Cayuga Indians, tree-carvings by, 213 Cayuga lake, pictographs on, 213 Cayuse vocabulary obtained, XIV Ceará, Brazil, petroglyphs in, 155-157 Center, pictographs for, 587 Central America, petroglyphs in, 141-142 Chaleur Bay, face decoration of Indian women of, 220 Challenge, pictographic form of, 362 Chalk grade, Owens valley, California, petroglyphs at, 58 , 59 Chandeswar, India, cup sculptures at, 196 Charencey, Count de, cited on Mexican symbolic colors, 625 Charms and amulets, 501-505 Chasm island, Australia, petroglyphs at, 161 Chelan lake, Washington, petroglyphs at 33 , 122-123 Cherokee Indians, linguistic work among, XV - XVI work on language of, XIX battle of, with Shawnees, 122 map made by, 341 symbolic use of colors by, 624-634 war color of, 631 alphabet of, 665 Cheyenne Indians, letter-writing by, 363-364 tribal designations of, 382-383 Chibcha Indians, symbols used by, 615-616 Chicagua rapids, Venezuela, petroglyphs at, 148-150 Chihuahua, Mexico, petroglyphs in, 131 Chikasa Indians, tattoo of, 394 Child, gesture signs for, 643-644 Chile, petroglyphs in, 159-160 Chilkat Indians, pictographs by, 217 cedar bark blankets made by, 217 ceremonial garments of, 429-430 China, petroglyphs in, 185 Chinese, mnemonic devices of 226 , 227 topographic representations by, 344 ideographs by, for sickness, 590 ideographs for prisoners by, 600 symbolic writing of, 618 conventional characters of, 649-650 mourning colors of, 631 ideographs and gesture signs of, 637 , 642 , 643 , 644 , 645 Chinook Indians, medicine bag of, 504 burial vaults of, 523-524 Chippewa Indians, practice of tattoo by, 406-407 mourning color of, 630 Chiriqui, cup sculptures in, 193-194 Chiulee creek, Arizona, petroglyphs on, 51 Choctaw Indians, ancient notices of, 347 mode of divination of, 494-495 Christian art, significance of color in, 622-623 Chronology, pictographic, 265-328 Chukchis of Siberia, tattooing of, 414 Chumanas Indians of Brazil, dyes used by, 222 Ciguaner Indians, war colors of, 632-633 [812] Claim or demand, mode of presenting, 374-375 Clarke, W. M., petroglyphs reported by, 115 Clarksville, Tennessee, petroglyphs near, 114 Clouds, signs and symbols for, 700-701 Cloud-Shield, Winter Count of, 269-523 Cold, pictographs for, 605-606 Color, significance of, 618-637 decorative use of, 619-622 ideocrasy of, 622-623 ceremonial use of, 623-629 relative to death and mourning, 629-631 for war and peace, 631-633 designating social status, 633-635 symbolic use of, in general, 635-636 Coloring matter and its application in pictography, 219-222 Colorado, petroglyphs in, 72-75 Colorado river, Utah, petroglyphs on, 118 , 119 , 120 Columbia River, Washington, petroglyphs on, 123 Comanche Indians, drawings on bone by, 206 gesture signs of, 645 Connecticut, petroglyphs in, 75-76 Controverted pictographs, 759-767 Conventional pictographic devices, 650-664 Peace, 650-651 ; war, 651-652 ; chief, 652-653 ; council, 653-654 ; plenty of food, 654-655 ; famine, 655-656 ; starvation, 656 Conventionalizing in pictography, 649-675 development of, 649-650 Copper, pictographs on, 212-213 Corados, pictured notices by, 357 Corbusier, William, petroglyphs reported by, 129-130 account of Dakota customs by, 265 religious ceremonies described by, 505-507 Coronel, A. F., ethnologic collection of, 71 cited, 72 Costa Rica, Anastasia Alfaro donates gold ornaments from, XXII Costumes, weapons, and ornaments (distinctive), pictographs of, 749-756 Cree Indians, exploit marks of, 440 notice of death given by, 518 Criley, John, petroglyphs reported by, 77 Cross, pictographs, symbols, and significations of the, 724-735 Crow Indians, tribal designation of, 380 Cueva Pintada, petroglyph at, 98 Cult societies, pictographic devices of, 528-530 Cunningham, Charles W., petroglyphs reported by, 356-357 Cunninghams island, Lake Erie, petroglyphs on, 678 Cup sculptures, 189-200 classification of, 189-192 Curtin, Jeremiah, work of, XVI - XVII , XIX Cushing, Frank Hamilton, Zuñi sand painting described by, 210-211 Customs, illustrated in pictographs, 528-550 D. Dakota or Sioux Indians, gods of, 32-33 dye stuffs used by, 220 Dakota or Sioux Indians, notched sticks used by, for recording time, 227 system of chronology of, 265 Ojibwa name for, 272 tribal names of, 272 mythic records of, 290-293 Battiste Good’s record of, 293-328 topographic representation by, 344-345 tribal designations of, 383 gentile designations of, 389-390 superstition of, regarding tattoo, 395 devices of, for personal names, 442-443 , 459-460 god Haokah of, 479-480 thunder birds of, 483-485 pictographs of, connected with thunder-bird myth, 486 shamanism or medicine-making of, 493-495 fetiches of, 501 , 503 ceremonial colors of, 512 burial scaffolds of, 518-519 commemoration of dead by, 523 pictographs of, relating to customs, hunting, war, etc., 534-537 , 539-540 games of, 547 records of expeditions by, 552-554 records of notable events by, 567-570 records in general by, 576 , 578-581 ideographic records by, 585-605 mourning ceremony of, 629 war color of, 631 significant use of color by various tribes of, 633-634 pictographs for gesture signs of, 639-641 conventional devices of, for peace, war, chief, counsel, plenty of food, famine, starvation, horses, horse-stealing, kill and death, shot, 650-661 composite forms in pictographs of, 735-736 painted robes of, 747 distinctive dress, ornaments, and weapons of, 751-753 drawings of, 756 Dakota language, translation made from Teton dialect of, XIX work on, XIX Davenport tablets, the, 764-765 Davidson, William C., vases donated by, XXI Dayaks, tattooing among, 413 Dead mountain, Nevada, petroglyphs at, 95 Deaf, pictographs for, 587 Death valley, California, petroglyphs in, 60-61 Declaration of war pictographically represented, 358-359 Denison, James S., communication from, 105 Dellenbaugh, F. S., drawings by, 51 Departure and return, Algonquian pictographic notice of, 330 Depuch island, Australia, petroglyphs on, 162-163 Desgodins, Pere, Mo-so manuscript copied by, 673-674 Dighton rock, Massachusetts, descriptions of, 86-87 , 762-764 Direction, pictographic notices of, 334 [813] Direction indicated by drawing topographic features, 341-347 Director, report of, III - XXX Disease, pictographic representation of, 588-590 Dorsey, J. Owen, work of, XVIII - XIX cited concerning Omaha names, 92 report by, on use of colors by Osage Indians, 221 explanation of Osage records by, 251 notes on Indian personal names by, 446 Douglas, Prof., remarks by, on cup sculptures, 198 Downing, Alfred, petroglyphs described by, 123 Drawing, instruments for, 219 Drums, magic, 514-517 Duck river, Tennessee, petroglyphs on, 114 Dutch, of Brazil, petroglyphs attributed to, 150 Dwellings, pictographs of, 719-722 E. Eakins, D. W., customs of Muskoki Indians described by, 258 Earth, pictographs on, 210-212 Easter island, Oceanica, petroglyphs in, 169-171 Eclipse of the sun, pictographs of, 722 Effigy mounds, 212 Egypt, petroglyphs in, 179-180 Egyptians (ancient), symbols of deities of, 466 mourning ceremonies of, 631 symbolic color of, 634 symbolic characters of, 642 , 643 , 645 El Paso county, Texas, Indian map on rock in, 344 El Paso del Norte, Texas, petroglyphs near, 115 Emblems, use of, in early and modern times, 376-373 signification of, 610-611 Emmert, John W., work of, XI , XII Enchanted mountain, Georgia, petroglyphs in, 76 England, turf monuments in, 172-173 Épone, France, petroglyphs in, 175-176 Escamela, Mexico, stone of the giants at, 133 Escondido, California, petroglyphs near, 62-63 Esopus, New York, petroglyphs at, 98 Espanola, New Mexico, petroglyphs near, 97 Esquimau tattooing, 392-396 Esselen vocabulary obtained, XV Europe, petroglyphs in, 171-178 Expenditures during the year, XXX Extra-limital petroglyphs, 161-188 F. Face decoration by Indian women of Bay of Chaleur, 220 Fairy rocks, Kejimkoojik lake, Nova Scotia, inscriptions on, 38-42 Fancher, G. L., pottery donated by, XXI - XXII Fast, pictograph for, 590 Fayette county, Pennsylvania, glyphs from Indian grave in, 112 Fear, pictograph for, 590-591 Feathers and quills, pictographs on, 207-208 Featherstonhaugh, Thomas, Indian relics donated by, XXII Feet and tracks, human and animal, pictographs of, 715-716 Fictile fabrics, pictographs on, 215 Field work, X - XVII Financial statement, XXX Finke river, Australia, petroglyphs on, 162 Florida chief, Satouriona, tattoo of, 393 Florida Indians, declaration of war by, 359 decorative painting by, 619 Flower messages of Turks and Persians, 368 Fauna, delineation of, 749 Fool creek canyon, Utah, pictographs at, 117 Forsyth county, Georgia, petroglyphs in, 76 Fort Washakie, Wyoming, petroglyphs near, 129-130 Fort Wrangell, Alaska, petroglyphs near, 47 Fowke, Gerard, work of, XI France, petroglyphs in, 175-177 emblems on tombstones in, 524 gambling pebbles from, 549-550 Fremont, Samuel, aid by, XVIII - XIX French Acadians, story of, told by Louis Labrador, 42 defeat of, at Port Royal, 42 Freshet, pictograph for, 591-592 Frost, L. L., pictographs reported by, 69 Fulton, R. L., petroglyphs described by, 92-95 G. Galibis, natives of South America, appointment notices of, 257 Games pictured, 547-550 Garden rock, Asheville, North Carolina, 99 Gaston, Oregon, petroglyphs, near, 105 Gatschet, Albert S., work of, XVII , XIX petroglyphs reported by, 105 report by, on coloring matter used by Klamath Indians, 221 on use of colors by Pueblos, 624 Geneva Picture rock, Pennsylvania, 111 Gentile and clan designations, 388-391 Georgia, petroglyphs in, 76 German swordmaker’s marks, 446 German sketches (mediaeval) compared with Apache drawings, 740 Gesture and posture signs depicted, 637-642 Giant bird Kaloo, myth of, 472-473 Giant petroglyph, England, 173 Gibbs, George, petroglyphs described by, 123 Gila river, Arizona, pictographs on, 49 Gila river valley, Arizona, petroglyphs in, 51 Gilbert, G. K., communication by, 48 petroglyphs described by, 50 drawings by, 77 inscriptions copied and described by, 116 , 117 petroglyphs described by, 329 Gill, De Lancey W., aid by, XXI acknowledgment to, 30
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery


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