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One picture for each year.
Also known as: Pictorial year count
The Plains pictorial calendar recording each year by a single image of its most memorable event.
Records a sequence of years, each by a single image of an event by which that year was remembered.
Contexts: History, Public information
Functions as an index to oral history rather than as the history itself: the image recalls a year to a keeper who knows the account, and the record is incomplete without the person.
Contexts: History, Public information
Several surviving counts overlap in the years they cover, which lets independent records be compared against one another and against documented events.
Contexts: History, Public information
A spiral or serpentine sequence of small pictorial figures painted on hide or cloth, one figure to a year, running outward or back and forth across the surface.