Illustrations
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Sources
The article on Sign Language includes a number of full- or half-length drawings of named or namable sources. On the principle of “Good informants make good anthropology”, a few of them are shown here.
 | The writer’s favorite source, illustrated as “Shoshoni andBanak I”. Identified in the article as Tendoy (The Climber),one of “a delegation of Shoshoni and Banak chiefs from Idaho, whovisited Washington during the months of April and May, 1880”. Here shownin Figure 310, sign for many. | |
| Huerito (Little Blonde), source “Apache I”, one of“a delegation of Apache chiefs from Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico,who were brought to Washington in the months of March and April, 1880”.Here shown in Figure 304, sign for who are you? |  | |
 | Tce-caq´-a-daq-a-qic (Lean Wolf), source “Hidatsa I”,identified as “chief of the Hidatsa ... at Washington with a delegationof Sioux Indians, in June, 1880”. Here shown in Figure 331, sign forfriend. | |
| Ta-taⁿ´ka Wa-kaⁿ (Medicine Bull), source “Dakota VIII”, oneof “a delegation of Lower Brulé Dakotas, while at Washington duringthe winter of 1880-’81”. Here shown in Figure 316, sign forhear. |  | |
 | Na´tci, source “Pai-Ute I”. Identified in the text as“a Pai-Ute chief, who was one of a delegation of that tribe toWashington in January, 1880”, though these drawings were probably notmade in Washington in January. Here shown in Figure 245, sign forchief. The name of Na´tci’s father, mentioned in the introduction to Na´tci’sNarrative, is more often spelled Winnemucca. | |
 | The subject of this illustration could not be identified; he maysimply be Na´tci (above) from a different angle. He is shown here inFigure 286, Blackfoot (tribal sign). | |