| Page. |
| List of illustrations | [7] |
| Introductory | [13] |
| Distribution of petroglyphs in North America | [19] |
| Northeastern rock-carvings | [19] |
| Rock-carvings in Pennsylvania | [20] |
| in Ohio | [21] |
| in West Virginia | [22] |
| in the Southern States | [22] |
| in Iowa | [23] |
| in Minnesota | [23] |
| in Wyoming and Idaho | [24] |
| in Nevada | [24] |
| in Oregon and Washington Territory | [25] |
| in Utah | [26] |
| in Colorado | [27] |
| in New Mexico | [28] |
| in Arizona | [28] |
| in California | [30] |
| in Colored pictographs on rocks | [33] |
| Foreign petroglyphs | [38] |
| Petroglyphs in South America | [38] |
| in British Guiana | [40] |
| in Brazil | [44] |
| Pictographs in Peru | [45] |
| Objects represented in pictographs | [46] |
| Instruments used in pictography | [48] |
| Instruments for carving | [48] |
| for drawing | [48] |
| for painting | [48] |
| for tattooing | [49] |
| Colors and methods of application | [50] |
| In the United States | [50] |
| In British Guiana | [53] |
| Significance of colors | [53] |
| Materials upon which pictographs are made | [58] |
| Natural objects | [58] |
| Bone | [59] |
| Living tree | [59] |
| Wood | [59] |
| Bark | [59] |
| Skins | [60] |
| Feathers | [60] |
| Gourds | [60] |
| Horse-hair | [60] |
| Shells, including wampum | [60] |
| Earth and sand | [60] |
| The human person | [61] |
| Paint on the human person | [61] |
| Tattooing | [63] |
| Tattoo marks of the Haida Indians | [66] |
| Tattooing in the Pacific Islands | [73] |
| Artificial objects | [78] |
| Mnemonic | [79] |
| The quipu of the Peruvians | [79] |
| Notched sticks | [81] |
| Order of songs | [82] |
| Traditions | [84] |
| Treaties | [86] |
| War | [87] |
| Time | [88] |
| The Dakota Winter Counts | [89] |
| The Corbusier Winter Counts | [127] |
| Notification | [147] |
| Notice of departure and direction | [147] |
| condition | [152] |
| Warning and guidance | [155] |
| Charts of geographic features | [157] |
| Claim or demand | [159] |
| Messages and communications | [160] |
| Record of expedition | [164] |
| Totemic | [165] |
| Tribal designations | [165] |
| Gentile or clan designations | [167] |
| Personal designations | [168] |
| Insignia or tokens of authority | [168] |
| Personal name | [169] |
| An Ogalala roster | [174] |
| Red-Cloud’s census | [176] |
| Property marks | [182] |
| Status of the individual | [183] |
| Signs of particular achievements | [183] |
| Religious | [188] |
| Mythic personages | [188] |
| Shamanism | [190] |
| Dances and ceremonies | [194] |
| Mortuary practices | [197] |
| Grave-posts | [198] |
| Charms and fetiches | [201] |
| Customs | [203] |
| Associations | [203] |
| Daily life and habits | [205] |
| Tribal history | [207] |
| Biographic | [208] |
| Continuous record of events in life | [208] |
| Particular exploits and events | [214] |
| Ideographs | [219] |
| Abstract ideas | [219] |
| Symbolism | [221] |
| Identification of the pictographers | [224] |
| General style or type | [225] |
| Presence of characteristic objects | [230] |
| Modes of interpretation | [233] |
| Homomorphs and symmorphs | [239] |
| Conventionalizing | [244] |
| Errors and frauds | [247] |
| Suggestions to collaborators | [254] |