Universal Indian Sign Language Of The Plains Indians Of North America Together With A Simplified Method Of Study, A List Of Words In Most General Use, A Codification Of Pictographic Symbols Of The Sioux And Ojibway, A Dictionary Of Synonyms, A History Of Sign Language, Chapters On Smoke Signaling, Use Of Idioms, Etc. And Other Important Co-Related Matter

WILLIAM TOMKINS

Publication: William Tomkins, 1970, San Diego

Eighteenth printing. 9 3/4" x 6 1/2" in peach pictorial wrappers. 106 [6]pp. Introductory Notes. Charts. Illustrations. "Plains Indians from different tribes speaking different languages were nevertheless able to communicate facts and feelings of considerable complexity when they met. They used a language composed of gestures made almost entirely with the hands and fingers, probably the most highly developed gesture language to be found in any part of the world. With this book, you will find it simple to use this language, which the author learned in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, principally from Sioux Indians in Wyoming. Drawings and short descriptions make clear the proper positions and motions of the hands to convey the meaning of over 870 alphabetically arranged common words - hungry, camp, evening, angry, fire, laugh, owl, cat, many times, brave, cold, heart, rain, spotted, together, river, etc. The words are then used in sample sentences. There are also brief sections on the pictography and ideography of the Sioux and Ojibway tribes, and on smoke signals." Tanning to edges of wrappers and pages; 1" split to head of spine and 1/2" x 1" chip to rear wrapper along with light wear to the extremities.

Inventory Number: 51191