Sign Language Among North American Indians 1

Sign Language Among North American Indians 1

Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes

First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the

Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880,

Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552

 

Garrick Mallery

 

 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

 

 

FIG. PAGE

 

61. Affirmation, approving. Old Roman 286

62. Approbation. Neapolitan 286

63. Affirmation, approbation. N.A. Indian 286

64. Group. Old Greek. Facing 289

65. Negation. Dakota 290

66. Love. Modern Neapolitan 290

67. Group. Old Greek. Facing 290

68. Hesitation. Neapolitan 291

69. Wait. N.A. Indian 291

70. Question, asking. Neapolitan 291

71. Tell me. N.A. Indian 291

72. Interrogation. Australian 291

73. Pulcinella 292

74. Thief. Neapolitan 292

75. Steal. N.A. Indian 293

76. Public writer. Neapolitan group. Facing 296

77. Money. Neapolitan 297

78. "Hot Corn." Neapolitan Group. Facing 297

79. "Horn" sign. Neapolitan 298

80. Reproach. Old Roman 298

81. Marriage contract. Neapolitan group. Facing 298

82. Negation. Pai-Ute sign 299

83. Coming home of bride. Neapolitan group. Facing 299

84. Pretty. Neapolitan 300

85. "Mano in fica." Neapolitan 300

86. Snapping the fingers. Neapolitan 300

87. Joy, acclamation 300

88. Invitation to drink wine 300

89. Woman's quarrel. Neapolitan Group. Facing 301

90. Chestnut vender. Facing 301

91. Warning. Neapolitan 302

92. Justice. Neapolitan 302

93. Little. Neapolitan 302

94. Little. N.A. Indian 302

95. Little. N.A. Indian 302

96. Demonstration. Neapolitan 302

97. "Fool." Neapolitan 303

98. "Fool." Ib. 303

99. "Fool." Ib. 303

100. Inquiry. Neapolitan 303

101. Crafty, deceitful. Neapolitan 303

102. Insult. Neapolitan 304

103. Insult. Neapolitan 304

104. Silence. Neapolitan 304

105. Child. Egyptian hieroglyph 304

106. Negation. Neapolitan 305

107. Hunger. Neapolitan 305

108. Mockery. Neapolitan 305

109. Fatigue. Neapolitan 305

110. Deceit. Neapolitan 305

111. Astuteness, readiness. Neapolitan 305

112. Tree. Dakota, Hidatsa 343

113. To grow. N.A. Indian 343

114. Rain. Shoshoni, Apache 344

115. Sun. N.A. Indian 344

116. Sun. Cheyenne 344

117. Soldier. Arikara 345

118. No, negation. Egyptian 355

119. Negation. Maya 356

120. Nothing. Chinese 356

121. Child. Egyptian figurative 356

122. Child. Egyptian linear 356

123. Child. Egyptian hieratic 356

124. Son. Ancient Chinese 356

125. Son. Modern Chinese 356

126. Birth. Chinese character 356

127. Birth. Dakota 356

128. Birth, generic. N.A. Indians 357

129. Man. Mexican 357

130. Man. Chinese character 357

131. Woman. Chinese character 357

132. Woman. Ute 357

133. Female, generic. Cheyenne 357

134. To give water. Chinese character 357

135. Water, to drink. N.A. Indian 357

136. Drink. Mexican 357

137. Water. Mexican 357

138. Water, giving. Egypt 358

139. Water. Egyptian 358

140. Water, abbreviated 358

141. Water. Chinese character 358

142. To weep. Ojibwa pictograph 358

143. Force, vigor. Egyptian 358

144. Night. Egyptian 358

145. Calling upon. Egyptian figurative 359

146. Calling upon. Egyptian linear 359

147. To collect, to unite. Egyptian 359

148. Locomotion. Egyptian figurative 359

149. Locomotion. Egyptian linear 359

150. Shuⁿ'-ka Lu'-ta. Dakota 365

151. "I am going to the east." Abnaki 369

152. "Am not gone far." Abnaki 369

153. "Gone far." Abnaki 370

154. "Gone five days' journey." Abnaki 370

155. Sun. N.A. Indian 370

156. Sun. Egyptian 370

157. Sun. Egyptian 370

158. Sun with rays. Ib. 371

159. Sun with rays. Ib. 371

160. Sun with rays. Moqui pictograph 371

161. Sun with rays. Ib. 371

162. Sun with rays. Ib. 371

163. Sun with rays. Ib. 371

164. Star. Moqui pictograph 371

165. Star. Moqui pictograph 371

166. Star. Moqui pictograph 371

167. Star. Moqui pictograph 371

168. Star. Peruvian pictograph 371

169. Star. Ojibwa pictograph 371

170. Sunrise. Moqui do. 371

171. Sunrise. Ib. 371

172. Sunrise. Ib. 371

173. Moon, month. Californian pictograph 371

174. Pictograph, including sun. Coyotero Apache 372

175. Moon. N.A. Indian 372

176. Moon. Moqui pictograph 372

177. Moon. Ojibwa pictograph 372

178. Sky. Ib. 372

179. Sky. Egyptian character 372

180. Clouds. Moqui pictograph 372

181. Clouds. Ib. 372

182. Clouds. Ib. 372

183. Cloud. Ojibwa pictograph 372

184. Rain. New Mexican pictograph 373

185. Rain. Moqui pictograph 373

186. Lightning. Moqui pictograph 373

187. Lightning. Ib. 373

188. Lightning, harmless. Pictograph at Jemez, N.M. 373

189. Lightning, fatal. Do. 373

190. Voice. "The-Elk-that-hollows-walking" 373

191. Voice. Antelope. Cheyenne drawing 373

192. Voice, talking. Cheyenne drawing 374

193. Killing the buffalo. Cheyenne drawing 375

194. Talking. Mexican pictograph 376

195. Talking, singing. Maya character 376

196. Hearing ears. Ojibwa pictograph 376

197. "I hear, but your words are from a bad heart." Ojibwa 376

198. Hearing serpent. Ojibwa pictograph 376

199. Royal edict. Maya 377

200. To kill. Dakota 377

201. "Killed Arm." Dakota 377

202. Pictograph, including "kill." Wyoming Ter. 378

203. Pictograph, including "kill." Wyoming Ter. 378

204. Pictograph, including "kill." Wyoming Ter. 379

205. Veneration. Egyptian character 379

206. Mercy. Supplication, favor. Egyptian 379

207. Supplication. Mexican pictograph 380

208. Smoke. Ib. 380

209. Fire. Ib. 381

210. "Making medicine." Conjuration. Dakota 381

211. Meda. Ojibwa pictograph 381

212. The God Knuphis. Egyptian 381

213. The God Knuphis. Ib. 381

214. Power. Ojibwa pictograph 381

215. Meda's Power. Ib. 381

216. Trade pictograph 382

217. Offering. Mexican pictograph 382

218. Stampede of horses. Dakota 382

219. Chapultepec. Mexican pictograph 383

220. Soil. Ib. 383

221. Cultivated soil. Ib. 383

222. Road, path. Ib. 383

223. Cross-roads and gesture sign. Mexican pictograph 383

224. Small-pox or measles. Dakota 383

225. "No thoroughfare." Pictograph 383

226. Raising of war party. Dakota 384

227. "Led four war parties." Dakota drawing 384

228. Sociality. Friendship. Ojibwa pictograph 384

229. Peace. Friendship. Dakota 384

230. Peace. Friendship with whites. Dakota 385

231. Friendship. Australian 385

232. Friend. Brulé Dakota 386

233. Lie, falsehood. Arikara 393

234. Antelope. Dakota 410

235. Running Antelope. Personal totem 410

236. Bad. Dakota 411

237. Bear. Cheyenne 412

238. Bear. Kaiowa, etc. 413

239. Bear. Ute 413

240. Bear. Moqui pictograph 413

241. Brave. N.A. Indian 414

242. Brave. Kaiowa, etc. 415

243. Brave. Kaiowa, etc. 415

244. Chief. Head of tribe. Absaroka 418

245. Chief. Head of tribe. Pai-Ute 418

246. Chief of a band. Absaroka and Arikara 419

247. Chief of a band. Pai-Ute 419

248. Warrior. Absaroka, etc. 420

249. Ojibwa gravestone, including "dead" 422

250. Dead. Shoshoni and Banak 422

251. Dying. Kaiowa, etc. 424

252. Nearly dying. Kaiowa 424

253. Log house. Hidatsa 428

254. Lodge. Dakota 430

255. Lodge. Kaiowa, etc. 431

256. Lodge. Sahaptin 431

257. Lodge. Pai-Ute 431