Native American pictogram of a medicine man's song. Pictograms were used to record rites and pass on traditions. From left to right this pictogram shows Minabozho (the servant of the good spirit), a ceremonial drum and drumsticks, a rest in chanting, an otter skin, a medicine bag, a medicine man, natural magic, a female medicine man, another rest in chanting, a sacred snakeskin medicine bag, another woman with her otter skin medicine bag and a woman holding a sacred plant used in exorcism.