. The book of woodcraft and Indian lore. Natural history; Camping; Outdoor life; Indians of North America. Signaling and Indian Signs 157 In general, picture writing aims to give on paper the idea of the Sign Language without first turning it into sounds. In the dictionary of Sign Language I give the written form after each of the signs that has a well established or pos- sible symbol. Many of these are drawn from the Indians who were among the best scouts and above all noted for their use of the picture-writing. A few of them will serve to illustrate. 0 I /I m nil V Vi V" V" y"
. The book of woodcraft and Indian lore. Natural history; Camping; Outdoor life; Indians of North America. Signaling and Indian Signs 157 In general, picture writing aims to give on paper the idea of the Sign Language without first turning it into sounds. In the dictionary of Sign Language I give the written form after each of the signs that has a well established or pos- sible symbol. Many of these are drawn from the Indians who were among the best scouts and above all noted for their use of the picture-writing. A few of them will serve to illustrate. 0 I /I m nil V Vi V" V" y"" QR»^")5 Numbers were originally lingers held up, and five was the whole hand, while ten was a double hand. We can see traces of this origin in the Roman style of numeration. A one-night camp, a more permanent camp, a village and i\ town are shown in legible symbols. An enemy, sometimes expressed as a " snake," recalls our own "snake in the ; A "friend," was a man with a. The picture on the teepee linmg, to record Guy's Exploit branch of a tree; because this was commonly used as a flag of truce and had indeed the same meaning as our oUve branch. The ''treaty" is easily read; it was a pair of figures like this done in Wampum that recorded Penn's Treaty. "Good'' is sometimes given as a circle full of lines all. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946. Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday, Page & Company
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