picture-writings

These are bronze needles, resembling our packing-needles, and little cast bronze bells, called in Aztec _yotl_, not unlike small horse-bells made in England at the present day; these are figured in the tribute-lists in the picture-writings.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

A curious ornament is met with in the Central American sculptures, representing a serpent with a man's face looking out from between its distended jaws; and we find a similar design in the Aztec picture-writings, sculptures, and pottery.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

The most interesting of Mexican picture-writings is the record of their wanderings.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

Aztec warrior in the picture-writings, while Palenque and Copan seemed to afford no instance of them; so that in two peculiarities the remarkable sculpture before us seems to belong rather to Yucatan than to Mexico, and in one to Mexico rather than to Yucatan.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

That learned writer, who had made a real and thorough study of the Mexican civilization, (having obtained from Mr. Prescott the books necessary for the purpose,) was so far from denying that hieroglyphical painting was practised by the Aztecs, or that authentic copies, and even actual specimens of it, have been preserved, that he himself constructed a Mexican chronology which has no other foundation than these same picture-writings.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

They are picture-writings on a gigantic scale, and are the source of much true history.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

There were also numerous picture-writings, of which I made copies.

A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

We often climbed among the cliffs, and everywhere we found picture-writings, poles laid up, stepping-stones, fragments of pottery, arrowheads, and other evidences of former occupation.

A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

According to their historical picture-writings, they founded the Pueblo of Mexico in 1325.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

A remarkable peculiarity in the Aztec picture-writings is that the personages represented often have one or more figures of tongues suspended in mid-air near their mouths, indicating that they are speaking, or that they are persons in authority.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor