Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 23
direction is still often given by meansof marks or blazes on trees, a survival of a primitivemethod, and American lumbermen or loggers cuthieroglyphic marks of ownership on their logs when theysend them down stream. In times of trouble it often happens that primitivemethods of communication are… … Fig. 6. Such symbolical messages are common enough amongsavage tribes, but without some key it is almost impossibleto interpret them. They are sovarious in their composition that nouseful analysis of them can be made.On one such message from WestAfrica, strung on a string of fiat fibreknotted at…
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