BC sawmill sign language (pidgin?)

[Keith Thor Carlson]

Hi Dave,

I've not heard of sawmill sign language, but several Sto:lo elders have 
said their ancestors used to have a fairly elaborate sign language that 
they used to communicate with one another across the Fraser River in 
teh canyon area above Yale (where the nose is too great to communicate 
by yelling).

Keith

On Jan 3, 2007, at 1:04 AM, Dave Robertson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Any of you familiar with Meissner and Philpott's work on BC sawmill 
> sign
> language?
>
> It was surprisingly elaborated, though limited in functions.
>
> A pidgin?
>
> There was apparently an Oregon-Washington sawmill sign language too.  
> I'm
> waiting for a couple of papers on that to arrive.
>
> --Dave
>
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