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Picture-writing

Type of writing system

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Picture-writing

1 image from works
  • A picture-written notice to smokers and chewers requesting them to throw their stubs etc. in the stove. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1854.

Works from the collections

5 works

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    A picture-written notice to smokers and chewers requesting them to throw their stubs etc. in the stove. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1854.

    | Date: [1854] | Reference: 24866i
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    Studies in Central American picture writing / by Edward S. Holden.

    Holden, Edward S. (Edward Singleton), 1846-1914. | Date: [1879]
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    Pictographs and petroglyphs of the high western plains / Étienne Bernardeau Renaud.

    Renaud, E. B. (Etienne Bernardeau), 1880-1973. | Date: [1936]
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    Legends of the Delaware Indians and picture writing / by Richard C. Adams.

    Adams, Richard C. (Richard Calmit) | Date: 1905
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    Picture-writing of Texas Indians / by A.T. Jackson.

    Jackson, A. T. | Date: [1938]

Related topics

Indians, North American

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