. Bulletin. Ethnology. BDLL. 30] GRASS HOUSE 505 Graphic delineations are most exten- sively eniploj'ed by the tribes in pictog- raphy (q. V. ),exampIesof which,engraved or painted on rock surfaces, are found in nearly every section of the country. Sim- ilar work was executed by many of the tribes on dressed skins, on birch-bark, and on objects of wood, ivory, bone, horn, and shell. Thedelineationof life forms in dec- orative and symbolicart is hardly less uni- versal than in simple pictography, and is especially exemplified in tlie work of the more advanced peoples, as the pottery of the moun
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BDLL. 30] GRASS HOUSE 505 Graphic delineations are most exten- sively eniploj'ed by the tribes in pictog- raphy (q. V. ),exampIesof which,engraved or painted on rock surfaces, are found in nearly every section of the country. Sim- ilar work was executed by many of the tribes on dressed skins, on birch-bark, and on objects of wood, ivory, bone, horn, and shell. Thedelineationof life forms in dec- orative and symbolicart is hardly less uni- versal than in simple pictography, and is especially exemplified in tlie work of the more advanced peoples, as the pottery of the mound builders and Pueblos, the utensils and the carvings of the tribes of the N. Pacific coast, and ceremonial costumes, and walls and floors of sacred chambers among various tribes. The graphic work of the Eskimo has a pecu- liar interest, since it seems to have been somewhat recently superposed upon an earlier system in which simple geometric figures predominated, and is much more prevalent where these people have been for a long time in contact with the whites, and more especially with the Atha- pascan and other Indian tribes skilled in graph- ic work (Hoff- man ). A special feature of the art of the Eskimo is the engraving of hunting scenes and exploits of various kinds onobjectsof ivo- ry and boneâ works paralleled among the Indian tribes in the S. by such examples as the Thruston tablet (Thruston, Holmes), the Davenport tab- let (Farquharson), and the battle and hunting scenes of the Plains tribes (Mal- lery, Mooney). Skill in graphic work was highly re- garded among many of the tribes, and the artist took particular pride in his work, and when especially successful l)ecame in a sense professional. Usually decorative designs were executed without pattern or copy, and with much directness. The most intricate patterns, applied to earth- enware vessels and other objects, were not sketched out but were di'awn at once, and often with remarkable skill. Among the N. W. coast tribe
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