 | Henry Youle Hind - Assiniboine River (Sask. and Man.) - 1860 - 540 pages
...descriptive expressions, and use words apart from the ordinary signification. The Ojibways abbreviate their sentences and employ many elliptical forms of...consonants, among which are two c's, two g's, two h's, two &'s, two n's, two s's, two fs, and two z's. The repetition of the same letter is used to denote a guttural,... | |
 | Henry Youle Hind - History - 1860 - 522 pages
...descriptive expressions, and use words apart from the ordinary signification. The Ojibways abbreviate their sentences and employ many elliptical forms of...consonants, among which are two c's, two g's, two A'a, two k's, two n's, two s's, two fs, and two z's. The repetition of the same letter is used to denote... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - America - 1892 - 704 pages
...descriptive expressions, and use words apart from the ordinary signification. The Ojibways abbreviate their sentences and employ many elliptical forms of...with the colloquial language, fail to comprehend a medicineman when in the full flow of excited oratory.3 "Blood may be stanched by the words sicycuma,... | |
 | John Murdoch - Barrow, Cape - 1892 - 748 pages
...descriptive expressions, and use words apart from the ordinary signification. The Ojibways abbreviate their sentences and employ many elliptical forms of...with the colloquial language, fail to comprehend a medicineman when in the full flow of excited oratory.1 "Blood may be stanched by the words sicycuma,... | |
 | Gunnar Landtman - Priests - 1905 - 238 pages
...ceremonials, not only to impress their hearers but to elevate themselves as well.* l The Ojebways »abbreviate their sentences and employ many elliptical forms of...with the colloquial language, fail to comprehend a medicine-man when in the full flow of excited oratory.* 2 The language in which the Peruvian priests... | |
 | Anthropologische Gesellschaft in Wien - Anthropology - 1907 - 788 pages
...apart from the ordinary signification."4) Ein anderer Indianerstamm, die Odschibwäs, „abbreviate their sentences and employ many elliptical forms of...with the colloquial language, fail to comprehend a medicine-man in the full flow of excited oratory."5) Bei den WinnebagoIn dianern waren die Zauberformeln... | |
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... Dakotahs have a common and a sacred language. The conjuror, the war prophet, and the dreamer employ a language in which words are borrowed from other Indian tongues and dialects ; they make much use of descriptive expressions, and use words apart... 