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Illustrations Map 3.1.The Great Lakes region 103 Figures 3.1. “Peace Path” belt 106 3.2. 1701 Great Peace of Montreal signature page 107 3.3. Doodem images on an 1844 petition 110 3.4. Francis Densmore’s example of a traveler’s message 114 3.5. Ball-headed club inscribed with pictographic images 120 3.6. Pipe carved in the style of a ball-headed weapon inscribed with pictographic images 121 3.7 and 3.8.Thunderbird shoulder bag 122 3.9 Woven pipe bag 123 3.10. Carved pipe 124 3.11. Effigy pipe bowl 125 4.1. Incan official with two quipus 148 4.2. Incan official with quipu and book 153 5.1. Yupana device 177 5.2. Quipu accountant with yupana 178 5.3. Wari ceramic vessel with checkerboard design 182 5.4. Wari-wrapped quipu 184 5.5. Wrapped quipu with checkerboard pattern 185 5.6. Inca tunic 186 5.7.Thread-wrapped sticks 192 9.1. Naudowessie sachem, represented as a deer 305 9.2. Indians and Colonel Bouquet in conference, October 1764 310 10.1. A khipukamayuc 335 10.2. Guaman Poma’s description of the “paths” of Incan men and women (1615) 338 12.1. Page from Pedro de Gante’s Doctrina Cristiana (1547) 377 12.2. “Table giving elements of the oriental languages and references in Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic” 386 12.3. Page from Cave Beck, The Universal Character (1657) 393 ...

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