Part 14 (1/2)

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The sas 186 and 187

In the latter the sky is shown, the changing direction of the streak, and clouds with rain falling The part relating specially to the streak is portrayed in a sign as follows: Right hand elevated before and above the head, forefinger pointing upward, brought doith great rapidity with a sinuous, undulating onally doard toward the right (_Cheyenne_ II)

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Figs 188 and 189 also represent _lightning_, taken by Mr WH

Jackson, photographer of the late US Geolog and Geog Survey, from the decorated walls of an estufa in the Pueblo de Jemez, New Mexico

The for in an arrow or spear point, for destructive or fatal, lightning

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A co the Indians is the repeated ht line forward fro 190, taken fro the expression for the fact that ”the-Elk-that-holloalking,” a Minneconjou chief, ”made medicine”

The cereraphic portraiture of the conception of _voice_ is in Fig 191, representing an antelope and the whistling sound produced by the ani surprised or alar book of an Indian prisoner at Saint Augustine, Fla, now in the Smithsonian Institution, No 30664

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Fig 192 is the exhibition of wrestling for a turkey, the point of interest in the present connection being the lines from the mouth to the objects of conversation It is taken fro book

The wrestlers, according to the foot prints, had evidently co hunter, who is wrapped in his blanket with only one foot protruding, they separated and threw off their blankets, leggings, andto win the turkey, which lies between the 193, taken fro book, the conversation is about the lassoing, shooting, and final killing of a buffalo which has wandered to a camp The dotted lines indicate footprints The Indian drawn under the buffalo having secured the animal by the fore feet, so informs his companions, as indicated by the line drawn froure, having also secured the buffalo by the horns, gives his nearest comrade an opportunity to strike it with an ax, which he no doubt announces that he will do, as the line froests The Indian in the upper left-hand corner is told by a squaw to take an arrow and join his companions, when he turns his head to inform her that he has one already, which fact he de up the weapon

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The Mexican pictograph, Fig 194, taken froh, II, pt 1, p 100, is illustrative of the sign made by the Arikara and Hidatsa for _tell_ and _conversation_ _Tell ht hand, palht side of the face, fingers pointing to the left and front; then draw the hand inward toward and against the botto between two persons, both hands are held before the breast, pointing forward, pal moved several times toward one another Perhaps, however, the picture in fact onlywords”

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Fig 195 is one of Landa's characters, found in _Rel des choses de Yucatan_ p 316, and suggests one of the gestures for _talk_ and _, in which the extended and separated fingers are passed forward and slightly doard froh the last opinion about the bishop is unfavorable to the authenticity of his work, yet even if it were prepared by a Maya, under his supervision, the latter would probably have given hiestures would be likely to occur

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The natural sign for _hear_,in the motion of the index, or the index and thuht line to the ear, is illustrated in the Ojibwa pictograph Fig 196, ”hearing ears,” and those of the sa serpent, and the former means ”I hear, but your words are fro thrown out as in the final part of a gesture for _bad heart_, which isclosed and held near the breast, with the back toward the breast, then as the arers separated from each other (_Mandan and Hidatsa_ I)

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