. The book of woodcraft . gn is time. This is made by drawing acircle with the right forefinger on the back of the left looks Hke a referenceto the wrist watch, butit is certainly mucholder than that style oftimepiece and probablyrefers to the shadow ofa tree. Some prefer todraw the circle on theleft palm as it is held upfacing forward. If you wish to ask,What time is it? Youmake the signs Question, then Time. If the answer is Three oclock, you would signal: Time and hold up three fingers of the right hand. Hours are shown by laying the right forefinger as apointer on the flat palm of
. The book of woodcraft . gn is time. This is made by drawing acircle with the right forefinger on the back of the left looks Hke a referenceto the wrist watch, butit is certainly mucholder than that style oftimepiece and probablyrefers to the shadow ofa tree. Some prefer todraw the circle on theleft palm as it is held upfacing forward. If you wish to ask,What time is it? Youmake the signs Question, then Time. If the answer is Three oclock, you would signal: Time and hold up three fingers of the right hand. Hours are shown by laying the right forefinger as apointer on the flat palm of the left and carrying it oncearound; minutes by moving the pointer a very little to theleft. If you wish to signal in answer 3:15. You give the signsfor hours 3 and minutes 15. Holding all ten fingers up for10, then those of one hand for 5. It takes a good-sized dictionary to give all the signs inuse, and a dictionary you must have, if you would becomean expert. I shall conclude with one pretty little Indian sign: First,. Signaling and Indian Signs 239 give the Question sign, then make an incomplete ring of yourright forefinger and thumb, raise them in a sweep untilabove your head, then bring the ring straight down to yourheart. This is the Indian way of asking, Is the sun shin-ing in your heart? — that is, Are you happy? — youranswer will, I hope, be made by the right hand and armstanding up straight, then bowing toward the left, followedby a sharp stroke of the right fist knuckles past those of theleft fist without their touching, which means Yes, the sunshines in my heart heap strong.^ PICTURE-WRITING The written form of Sign Language is the picture-writingalso called Pictography, and Ideography, because it repre-sents ideas and not words or letters. It is widely believedthat Sign Language is the oldest of all languages; that in-deed it existed among animals before man appeared on is universally accepted that the ideography is the oldestof all writing. The Chin
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