. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. MATERIALS TO WHITE UPON BEFORE INVENTION OF PRTN'I'ING. 641 Fio. 2. Australian message orrrTZ^^.. ^^g^'"^ Fu; Bird mouud uuar Milwaukee. South America used grains of corn or variously colored [)el)l)les, which Ihev arran«2:e(l in a certain order, for tJie purpose of express- ing certain ideas, trans- mitting" nu"^sa<ies. or recount iiiii' (he li'real deeds of their nation. Later these same [)eo- j)les em[)loyed str
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. MATERIALS TO WHITE UPON BEFORE INVENTION OF PRTN'I'ING. 641 Fio. 2. Australian message orrrTZ^^.. ^^g^'"^ Fu; Bird mouud uuar Milwaukee. South America used grains of corn or variously colored [)el)l)les, which Ihev arran«2:e(l in a certain order, for tJie purpose of express- ing certain ideas, trans- mitting" nu"^sa<ies. or recount iiiii' (he li'real deeds of their nation. Later these same [)eo- j)les em[)loyed strings of varvinir lengths and colors, in which they made knots and loops at greater or less intervals. This is called the '' ;' We must mention likewise the small sticks of the Scythians, the stick of memory; " stick messages " of the Australians, means employed to correspond at a distance. (Fig. 2.)« What shall we say of the mounds (fig. ^^),'' raised burial jDlaces, of North Auierica, abounding particu- larly in Ohio and AVisconsin, and the outline of Avhose base assumes the shape of an animal—quadruped, bird, serpent, lizard, or turtle? It is permissible to suppose that these forms designated the totem of the tribe or the individual Avho reposed in these tombs. The strangely shaped rocks, with a length of more than 12 kilometers, which project from the waters of the Nani- Ou, in Upper Laos (fig. 4),'" and the trees and bushes cut in the shape of animals which one sees on both banks of the river, are indeed rather diffi- cult to explain. After this digression, some- what beside the subject, but Fjo- 4. Rocks bewn in the form of animals and , 1 •, 1 , the human head in Nam-Ou. nevertheless necessary, let us return to the materials upon which writing has been done. oRoth (W. E.) : Ethnological Studies Among the North-West-Centrul Abo- ligines. Brisbane, London, 1897, S°. pi. xviii. No. 32. ^Lapliam (I. A.) : The Antiquities of Wisconsin (Sniiths
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