Fig. 1131.—Morning. Arizona.
Fig. 1131 shows various representations of sunrise from Oakley Springs, Arizona.
J. B. Dunbar (b), in The Pawnee Indians, says:
As an aid to the memory the Pawnees frequently made use of notches cut in a stick or some similar device for the computation of nights (for days were counted by nights), or even of months and years. Pictographically a day or daytime was represented by a six or eight pointed star as a symbol of the sun. A simple cross (a star) was a symbol of a night and a crescent represented a moon or lunar month.
A common Indian gesture for day is when the index and thumb form a circle (remaining fingers closed) and are passed from east to west.
Fig. 1132.—Day.
Fig. 1132 shows a pictograph found in Owens 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.
Fig. 1133.—Days. Apache.