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• Title:Indian sign language / by William Tomkins.
  
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• Author/Creator:Tomkins, William.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:New York : Dover Publications, 1969.
  

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  • Location:ASRS STORAGE (IKB) Xwi7xwa (Order via Document Delivery)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: CD T66 I5 1969
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Ojibwa--Languages.
  
• Description:106 p. : ill, b&w portraits, ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:"This Dover edition, first published in 1969, is an unabridged and corrected republication of the 1931 fifth edition of the work originally published by the author in San Diego, California under the title Universal Indian Sign Language of the Plains Indians of North America." -- verso
  
• Contents:Pictorial section
  Introductory notes
  Dictionary of the Indian sign language
  One way to tell your name and where you live
  Indian moons or months
  Sign language simplified
  Two hundred signs in most general use
  An Indian blessing
  Boy Scout Oath expressed in idiom
  Examples of sentence formation
  Synonyms
  Location of East and West in sign language
  Pictography and ideography of the Sioux and Ojibway tribes
  A pictographic story for our young friends
  Pictographic correspondence of today
  Co-relating sign language and pictography
  Smoke signals
  History of sign language
  General use of idioms
  Sentences for practice
  Vitalizing a sign language program to fit a Boy Scout troop meeting program
  Suggested troop program
  Indian ceremony for opening council fire
  Some sign language suggestions
  Suggestions for playlets
  Indian ceremonial initiation for Boy Scouts
  Sign language exercises suitable for passing tests
  Immortality
  A word to advanced students.