The pictographic paintings comprised not only recognizable but even vigorous representations of men and animals, depicted in form and color though without perspective, while the calumet of catlinite was sometimes chiseled into striking verisimilitude of human and animal forms in miniature.
"The Siouan Indians"
W. J. McGee
On the sculptured stones in the Copan valley there are characters which seem to resemble very ancient writing, but this pictographic writing is largely untranslatable.
"Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders or, The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold"
Victor Appleton
One: Their first writing was probably pictographic and was learned only by a select priestly class.
"Anything You Can Do ..."
Gordon Randall Garrett