picture-writing

Simple text and illustrations introduce the reader to pictographs. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.

"An artistic collection of 52 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English"--Provided by publisher.

Colonel Garrick Mallery's late nineteenth-century report for the Smithsonian Institution on the picture-writing of Native Americans, which includes more than one thousand illustrations and discusses the meanings of the pictures and the differences in style between various tribes.

Tells how people of different languages and cultures communicate through the use of wordless signs called pictograms.