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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes, by Garrick Mallery This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: 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 Author: Garrick Mallery Release Date: January 3, 2006 [EBook #17451] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIGN LANGUAGE *** Produced by William Flis, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) +-------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: The following notation | | is used for special phonetic characters: | | | | [c] = "c" with slash (cent sign) | | [.h] = "h" with superior dot | | ['s] = "s" with acute accent | | [k], [t] = inverted "k", "t" | | [n] = superscript "n" | | [=e], [=n] = "e", "n" with superior macron | | [)e], [)i] = "e", "i" with superior breve | | | | In this plain ASCII version, other accented | | characters have not been so encoded; e.g., | | "abbe" has lost its acute accent. | | | | The verses in the section on GESTURES OF ACTORS | | are loosely quoted from "The Rosciad" by | | Charles Churchill, which more accurately reads: | | | | "... When to enforce some very tender part, | | The right hand slips by instinct on the heart, | | His soul, of every other thought bereft, | | Is anxious only where to place the left;..." | +---------------------
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