. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... s for verbs or adjectives connected with them. It is an immense step to have rid ourselves of the phonetic or alpha-betic idea, and to have found the manner in which the Maya mindrepresented attributes and ideas. Their method was that of all nationsat the origin of written language; that is, pure picture-writing. AtOopan this is found in its earliest state; at Palenque it was alreadyhighly conventionalized. The step from the Palenque character to thatused in the Kabah inscription is apparently not gr
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... s for verbs or adjectives connected with them. It is an immense step to have rid ourselves of the phonetic or alpha-betic idea, and to have found the manner in which the Maya mindrepresented attributes and ideas. Their method was that of all nationsat the origin of written language; that is, pure picture-writing. AtOopan this is found in its earliest state; at Palenque it was alreadyhighly conventionalized. The step from the Palenque character to thatused in the Kabah inscription is apparently not greater than the stepfrom the latter to the various manuscripts. An important researchwould be the application of the methods so ably applied by Dr. Allento tracing the evolution of the latter characters from their earlier this way it will be possible to extend our present knowledge mate-rially. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. J. W. POWELL, DIRECTOR. CESSIONS OF LAND BY INDIAN TRIBES TO THE UNITED STATES: ILLUSTRATED BY THOSE IN THE STATE OF INDIANA. BY C. C. ROYCE. 247.
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