VI. EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS 113 (_a_) Hieroglyphic Writing 115 (_b_) Hieratic Writing 125 (_c_) Demotic Writing 127
VIII. EGYPTIAN WRITING IN ITS RELATION TO OTHER SCRIPTS 134
X. GREEK PAPYRI 198 The Diffusion of the "Phœnician" Alphabet-- (_a_) Aramean 207 (_b_) Sabean 212 (_c_) Hellenic 213
_Indian Petition to the United States Congress_ Frontispiece
FIG. PAGE 1. _Magical Pictograph against Stings_ 18 2. _Magical Device against Skin Disease_ 20 3. _Aboriginal Rock Carvings (Australia)_ 27 3a. _Aboriginal Rock Paintings (Australia)_ 28 4. _Bushman Paintings_ 30 4a. _Bushman Paintings_ 31 4b. _Specimen of Bushmen Rock Sculptures_ 32 4c. _Engravings found on Rocks in Algeria_ 33 5. _Bushman Rain-Charm_ 34 6. _Semang Rain-Charm_ 35 6a. _Record of Expedition_ 35 6b. _Various Types of the Human Form_ 36 7. _Quipu, for Reckoning, &c._ 40 8. _Double Calumet Wampum_ 48 9. _Double Calumet Council Hearth_ 48 10. _Jesuit Missionary Wampum_ 49 11. _Four Nations' Alliance Wampum_ 49 11a. _Penn Wampum_ 50 12,13. _Indian Grave-posts_ 53 14. _Tomb-board of Indian Chief_ 54 15. _Hunter's Grave-post_ 55 16. _A Cadger's Map of a Begging District_ 57 17. _Ojibwa Love-letter_ 58 18. _Love-song_ 58 19. _Mnemonic Song of an Ojibwa Medicine-man_ 59 20. _Wâbeno destroying an Enemy_ 61 21. _Etching on Innuit Drill-bow_ 62 22. _Ojibwa Hunting Record_ 62 23. _Hidatsa Pictograph on a Buffalo Shoulder-blade_ 63 24. _Alaskan Hunting Record_ 64 25. _Record of Starving Hunter_ 64 26. _Alaskan Hunting Life_ 66 27. _Indian Expedition_ 67 28. _Biography of Indian Chief_ 67 29. _War-song_ 68 30. _Letter offering Treaty of Peace_ 70 31. _Census Roll of an Indian Band_ 71 32. _Record of Departure (Innuit)_ 72 33. _Statue from Palenque_ 76 34. _Itzcoatl_ 80 35. _Rebus of Itzcoatl_ 80 36. _Paternoster Rebus_ 81 37. _Chinese Picture-writing and Later Uncial_ 83 38. _Chinese and Tibetan Triglot_ 88 39. _Rock Inscription at Behistun_ 95 40. _Cylinder Seal of Sargon I._ 107 41. _Tell-el-Amarna Tablet_ 109 42. _First Creation Tablet_ 110 43,44. _Deluge Tablet_ (_Chaldean Epic_) 111 45. _Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, and Demotic Signs for Man_ 115 46. _Comparative Ideographs_ 122 47. _Ptolemy_ 131 48. _Cleopatra_ 131 49. _Kaisars_ (_Cæsar_)--_A. Takrtr_ (_Autokrator_) 131 50. _Facsimile of Hieratic Papyrus Prisse_ 140 51. _Inscription on the Eshmunazar Sarcophagus_ 141 52. _Inscription on Sacred Bowls_ (_Baal Lebanon_) 146 53. _The Moabite Stone_ 147 54. _Maneh Weight_ 150 55. _Vase with Incised Characters_ (_Crete_) 161 56. _Incised Characters on Cup_ (_Crete_) 161 57. _Characters on Vase_ (_Crete_) 162 58. _Signs on Bronze Axe (Delphi)_ 162 59. _Signs on Blocks of Mycenæan Buildings_ (_Knôsos_) 163 60. _Symbols on Three-sided Cornelian_ (_Crete_) 165 61. _Symbols on Four-sided Stone_ (_Crete_) 165 62. _Symbols on Four-sided Stones, with larger faces_ (_Central Crete_) 166 63. _Symbol on Single-faced Cornelian_ (_Eastern Crete_) 166 64. _Symbol on Stone of ordinary Mycenæan type_ (_Athens_) 166 65. _Egyptian Scarabs, XIIth Dynasty_ --_Early Cretan Seal-stones_ 178 66. _Signs on Potsherds at Tell-el-Hesy_ _compared with Ægean Forms_ 179 67. _Hittite Inscription at Hamah_ 181 68. _Signs on Vase-handle_ (_Mycenæ_) 183 69. _Signs on Amphora-handle_ (_Mycenæ_) 183