Use by Other Peoples Than North American Indians – Sign Language
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Use by Other Peoples Than North American Indians
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Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared with that Among Other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes. 1881
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Use by Other Peoples Than North American Indians
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Less of practical value can be learned of sign language, considered as a system, from the study of gestures of actors and orators than would appear without reflection. The pantomimist who uses no words whatever is obliged to avail himself of every natural or imagined connection between thought and gesture, and, depending wholly on the
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Tribal Signs
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Tribal Signs
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – To What Extent Prevalent as a System
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Even when the specific practice of sign language has been generally discontinued for more than one generation, either from the adoption of a jargon or from the common use of the tongue of the conquering English, French, or Spanish, some of the gestures formerly employed as substitutes for words may survive as a customary accompaniment
Cresollius, writing in 1620, was strongly in favor of giving precedence to gesture. He says, “Man, full of wisdom and divinity, could have appeared nothing superior to a naked trunk or block had he not been adorned with the hand as the interpreter and messenger of his thoughts.” He quotes with approval the brother of
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The following information was obtained by Dr. W.J. Hoffman from the Apache chiefs under the title of Tinnean, (Apache I): The materials used in making smoke of sufficient density and color consist of pine or cedar boughs, leaves and grass, which can nearly always be obtained in the regions occupied by the Apaches of Northern
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Signals Made When the Person of the Signalist is Not Visible
Buffalo Discovered. See also Notes on Cheyenne and Arapaho signals When the Ponkas or Omahas discover buffalo the watcher stands erect on the hill, with his face toward the camp, holding his blanket with an end in each hand, his arms being stretched out (right and left) on a line with, shoulders. (Dakota VIII; Omaha
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Signals
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Notes on Cheyenne and Arapaho Signals
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Foreign Smoke Signals
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Fire Arrows
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Apart from the more material and substantive relations between signs and language, it is to be expected that analogies can by proper research be ascertained between their several developments in the manner of their use, that is, in their grammatic mechanism, and in the genesis of the sentence. The science of language, ever henceforward to
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Invention of New Signs
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