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Cachoeira do Riberão, Brazil, petroglyphs on, 150-151

Caïcara, Venezuela, sculptured rock near, 148

California, linguistic work in, XIV-XV, XVI-XVII petroglyphs in, 52-72 gesture signs in petroglyphs 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

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