Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 23
se different and probably moreelaborate messages, as theyconsist of carefully cut stripsof wood, resembling the oldspillikins with which our child-hoods days were made happy.These strips of thin wood,about three inches in length,are cut into various shapeswhich have no obvious col-lective meaning.… … Fig. EAELY EECOEDS. 11 meant that if she didnt sweep up the Nvigwam before hisarrival she would experience the efiect of one or other ofthe clubs. The Incas of Peru had a regular system of keepingrecords by means of coloured pieces of string knotted in apeculiar way. These knotted records, or…
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