{12} Of course, the Me'en might have a set of rules for interpreting clouds, and a failure to obey by these rules might result in an incorrect interpretation.
If this was the case, cloud interpretation would border on pictorial.
Still, it is hard to imagine that a culture without pictures would have such a complex system of cloud interpretation.
In addition, if the cloud interpreting rules accounted for their success in interpreting pictures, we would have to wonder just how arbitrary those rules are.
In all likelihood the rules for interpreting the clouds would have to be very similar to the rules used by the artist who created the buck and leopard pictures (if rules were used at all).
Strongly conventionalist accounts would have difficulty explaining this coincidence.