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XXII. Observations on the Indian method of Picture-Writing by William Bray, Esq. In a Letter to the Secretary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

William Bray Esq.
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In a memoir lately communicated to the Society by governor Pownall on the origin and nature of picture and elementary writing he observes that he has heard of painting on trees by the Indians in North America, but that he never saw any of them.

Recollecting that a gentleman of my acquaintance had shewed me in his journal a copy of an historical painting in figures which he had taken from a tree in North America, I wrote to him, and have been favored with the annexed sketch and interpretation of it.

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Archaeologia , Volume 6 , 1782 , pp. 159 - 162
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1782

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