Sign Language Among North American Indians and the qualities of the

and the qualities of the sounds produced

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Sign Language Among North American Indians and the qualities of theUsed throughout the world since earliest times as a common means of communication, sign language was particularly well developed among the Plains Indians of North America. The present study, a significant document in the history of American anthropology, was originally published in 1881 as part of the first annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. The author was a retired U. S. Army officer and bureau employee who was perhaps the foremost