A diagram comparing pictographic signs for night, supplication, negation, and medicine man among the Ancient Egyptians, Maya, Ojibwe, Rapa Nui, and Californian Indian people. An illustration by anthropologist Edward Clodd (1840-1930) from his book The Story of the Alphabet, 1900. Colorized.

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