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INDIAN SIGN LANGUAGE
by Tomkins, William
ISBN: 048622029X
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc **
Plains Indians from different tribes speaking different languages could communicate with a language com-posed almost entirely of gestures of the hands and fingers, probably the most highly developed gesture language in the world. With this book, you willfind it simple to use this language, which the author learned from Sioux Indians in Wyoming at the turn of the last century. Drawings and short descriptions convey over 870 signs.
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