Vulgar words in Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes - First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the - Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, - Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 (Page 1)
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Apuleius, however, in the tenth book of his _Metamorphosis_ or "Golden Ass," gives sufficient details of the performance of the Judgment of Paris to show that it strongly resembled the best form of ballet opera known in modern times.
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97 represents the head of a jackass, the thumbs being the ears, and the separation of the little from the third fingers showing the jaws.
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Another mode of executing the same conception--the ears of an ass--is shown in Fig.
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Among them can seldom be noticed in literal fact-- The graceless action of a heavy hand-- which the Bastard metaphorically condemns in King John.
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Our Indians have no special superstition concerning the evil-eye like the Italians, nor have they been long familiar with the jackass so as to make him emblematical of stupidity; therefore signs for these concepts are not cisatlantic, but even in this paper many are shown which are substantially in common between our Indians and Italians.