Use by Other Peoples Than North American Indians – Sign Language
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Use by Other Peoples Than North American Indians
Sign Language
Use By Modern Actors and Orators – Sign Language
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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Discourses – Tso-Di-A’-Ko’s Report – Sign Language
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Tso-Di-A’-Ko’s Report
Tribal Signs – Sihasapa to Wyandot – Sign Language
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Tribal Signs
Tribal Signs – Lipan to Sheepeater – Sign Language
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Tribal Signs
Tribal Signs – Cree to Kutine – Sign Language
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Tribal Signs
Tribal Signs – Atsina to Comanche – Sign Language
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Tribal Signs
Tribal Signs – Absaroka to Assinaboin – Sign Language
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Tribal Signs
Some Theories Upon Primitive Language – Sign Language
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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Conversation between Tendoy and Huerito – Sign Language
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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Survival in Gesture – Sign Language
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 …
Signals – Smoke Signals of the Apaches – Sign Language
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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Are Signs Conventional or Instinctive? – Sign Language
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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Pictographs – Sign Language
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Conclusions
Signals – Signals in Which Objects Are Used in Connection With Personal Action – Sign Language
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
Sign language among North American Indians was surprisingly uniform across the tribes, and appears to be the “language” of choice when Indians traversed from tribe to tribe in order to trade. This manuscript provides detailed signs for common dictionary words, complete narration and dialogue, as well as the history of sign language and how its origin in the Indian nations. Of particular interest are the sections on Native American gestures, and their use of smoke signals, fire signals, and dust signals.
Sign Language with Reference to Grammar
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 …
Signals – Smoke Signals – Sign Language
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Signals Made When the Person of the Signalist is Not Visible
Scheme of Illustration – Sign Language
In the following pages the scheme of graphic illustration, intended both to save labor and secure accuracy, which was presented in the Introduction to the Study of Sign Language, is reproduced with some improvements. It is given for the use of observers who may not see that publication, the material parts of which being included …
Results Sought in the Study of Sign Language
These may be divided into (1) its practical application, (2) its aid to philologic researches in general with (3) particular reference to the grammatic machinery of language, and (4) its archæologic relations. Practical Application The most obvious application of Indian sign language will for its practical utility depend, to a large extent, upon the correctness …