. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. y ERRATUM. Page 59, line i 2 from bottom,y^r Tepetlaplalco read 60, line 10 from ^T No. 2 read No. 1. AETICLE ly. THE TRIBUTE ROLL OF MONTEZUMA. EDITED BY Dr. DANIEL G. BRINTOX, Chairman,HENRY PHILLIPS, Jr., andDr. J. CHESTON MORRIS, A Committee appoiated by the American Philosophical Society, November 16, Paht I. THE WRITTEN LANGUAGE OF THE ANCIENT DANIEL G. BRINTON, , There are scarcely any tribes, however rude, who do not aid their memory bysome objective device. The savage Australians have t
. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. y ERRATUM. Page 59, line i 2 from bottom,y^r Tepetlaplalco read 60, line 10 from ^T No. 2 read No. 1. AETICLE ly. THE TRIBUTE ROLL OF MONTEZUMA. EDITED BY Dr. DANIEL G. BRINTOX, Chairman,HENRY PHILLIPS, Jr., andDr. J. CHESTON MORRIS, A Committee appoiated by the American Philosophical Society, November 16, Paht I. THE WRITTEN LANGUAGE OF THE ANCIENT DANIEL G. BRINTON, , There are scarcely any tribes, however rude, who do not aid their memory bysome objective device. The savage Australians have tally sticks, and in some locali-ties depict figures on the walls of caves in honor of some important event. A hand-ful of sticks of different lengths was the simple mnemonic device of the Iroquois;while knots tied in strings led in Siberia and Peru to a complicated system ofthought recording. The arts of drawing and coloring lent themselves with peculiar facility to thispurpose. They were by no means late or limited acquisitions of the human intelle
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