Fig. 173 shows a pictograph found in Owen’s Valley, California, a similar one being reported in the Ann.  Rep.  Geog.  Survey west of the 100th Meridian for 1876, Washington, 1876, pl. opp. p. 326, in which the circle may indicate either day or month (both these gestures having the same execution), the course of the sun or moon being represented perhaps in mere contradistinction to the vertical line, or perhaps the latter signifies one.

[Illustration:  Fig. 174.]

[Illustration:  Fig. 175.]

Fig. 174 is a pictograph of the Coyotero Apaches, found at Camp Apache, in Arizona, reported in the Tenth Ann.  Rep.  U.S.  Geolog. and Geograph.  Survey of the Territories for 1876, Washington, 1878, pl. lxxvii.  The sun and the ten spots of approximately the same shape represent the days, eleven, which the party with five pack mules passed in traveling through the country.  The separating lines are the nights, and may include the conception of covering over and consequent obscurity above referred to (page 354).

[Illustration:  Fig. 176.]

A common sign for moon, month, is the right hand closed, leaving the thumb and index extended, but curved to form a half circle and the hand held toward the sky, in a position which is illustrated in Fig. 175, to which curve the Moqui etching, Fig. 176, and the identical form in the ancient Chinese has an obvious resemblance.

[Illustration:  Fig. 177.]

The crescent, as we commonly figure the satellite, appears also in the Ojibwa pictograph, Fig. 177 (Schoolcraft, I, pl. 58), which is the same, with a slight addition, as the Egyptian figurative character.

[Illustration:  Fig. 178.]

[Illustration:  Fig. 179.]

The sign for sky, also heaven, is generally made by passing the index from east to west across the zenith.  This curve is apparent in the Ojibwa pictograph Fig. 178, reported in Schoolcraft, I, pl. 18, Fig. 21, and is abbreviated in the Egyptian character with the same meaning, Fig. 179 (Champollion, Dict., p. 1).

[Illustration:  Fig. 180.]

[Illustration:  Fig. 181.]

[Illustration:  Fig. 182.]

A sign for cloud is as follows:  (1) Both hands partially closed, palms facing and near each other, brought up to level with or slightly above, but in front of the head; (2) suddenly separated sidewise, describing a curve like a scallop; this scallop motion is repeated for “many clouds.” (Cheyenne II.) The same conception is in the Moqui etchings, Figs. 180, 181, and 182 (Gilbert MS.)

[Illustration:  Fig. 183.]

The Ojibwa pictograph for cloud is more elaborate, Fig. 183, reported in Schoolcraft, I, pl. 58.  It is composed of the sign for sky, to which that for clouds is added, the latter being reversed as compared with the Moqui etchings, and picturesquely hanging from the sky.