Forced and Mistaken Signs – Sign Language
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Forced and Mistaken Signs
Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared with that Among Other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes. 1881
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Forced and Mistaken Signs
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Extracts from Dictionary
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Extracts from Dictionary
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Extracts from Dictionary
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No, Not. (Compare Nothing.) The hand held up before the face, with the palm outward and vibrated to and fro. (Dunbar.) The right hand waved outward to the right with the thumb upward. (Long; Creel.) Wave the right hand quickly by and in front of the face toward the right. (Wied.) Refusing to accept the idea or
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Extracts from Dictionary
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Extracts from Dictionary
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There can be no attempt in the present limits to trace the etymology of any large number of words in the several Indian languages to a gestural origin, nor, if the space allowed, would it be satisfactory. The signs have scarcely yet been collected, verified, and collated in sufficient numbers for such comparison, even with
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Divisions of Gesture Speech
The general report that there is but one sign language in North America, any deviation from which is either blunder, corruption, or a dialect in the nature of provincialism, may be examined in reference to some of the misconceived facts which gave it origin and credence. It may not appear to be necessary that such
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Tso-Di-A’-Ko’s Report
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Lean Wolf’s Complaint
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Dialogue Between Alaskan Indians
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The following conversation took place at Washington in April, 1880, between Tendoy, chief of the Shoshoni and Banak Indians of Idaho, and Huerito, one of the Apache chiefs from New Mexico, in the presence of Dr. W.J. Hoffman. Neither of these Indians spoke any language known to the other, or had ever met or heard
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Comparisons With Foreign Signs
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Classes of Diversities in Signs
There has been much discussion on the question whether gesture signs were originally invented, in the strict sense of that term, or whether they result from a natural connection between them and the ideas represented by them, that is whether they are conventional or instinctive. Cardinal Wiseman (Essays, III, 537) thinks that they are of
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Examples of Algonquian Sign Language among the North American Indians
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