Part 14 (2/2)

[Illustration: Fig 198]

The final part of the gesture, representing the idea of _bad_, not connected with heart, is illustrated in Fig 236 on page 411

The above Ojibwa pictographs are taken fro 199, a bas-relief taken froh, _loc cit_ IV, pt 3, p 31, has been considered to be a royal edict or coht hand is directed to the persons addressed, so the command appears to be uttered with the preface of _Hear Ye! Oyez!_

[Illustration: Fig 199]

[Illustration: Fig 200]

The typical sign for _kill_ or _killed_ is: Right hand clinched, thuer tips, elevated to near the shoulder, strike doard and outward vaguely in the direction of the object to be killed The abbreviated sign is siht hand in the ht side

(_Cheyenne_ II) This gesture, also appears a 200

[Illustration: Fig 201]

Fig 201, taken froesture

It represents the year in which a Minneconjou chief was stabbed in the shoulder by a Gros Ventre, and afterwards naure was supposed to show the per up of the arm by anchylosis, but that would not be likely to be the result of the wound described, and with knowledge of the gesture the202]

Fig 202, taken fro, &c, Washi+ngton_, 1875, p 207, Fig 53, found in the Wind River Valley, Wyo Territory, was interpreted by ton in 1880 as ”an Indian killed another” The latter is very roughly delineated in the horizontal figure, but is also represented by the line under the hand of the upright figure, ht is the scalp taken and the two feathers showing the dead warrior's rank

The aresture for _killed_

[Illustration: Fig 203]

The sa 203, from the same authority and locality The scalp is here held forth, and the nunated by the stroke at the botto 204, from the same locality and authority, was also interpreted by the Shoshoni and Banak It appears from their description that a Blackfoot had attacked the habitation of soure represents his horse with the lance suspended fro house built against a stream The dots are the prints of the horse's hoofs, while the two lines running outward from the upper inclosure show that two thrusts of the lance werethe occupant and securing ts and five arrows, as represented in the left-hand group The right-hand figure of that group shows the hand raised in the attitude of204]

As the Blackfeet, according to the interpreters, were the only Indians in the localitybeco, as an atte of the logs at the corners, the gesture for which (_log-house_) will be found on page 428

Fig 205 is the Egyptian character for _veneration, to glorify_ (Cha that the hands are raised in surprise, astonish 205]

The Meno their hands in the same manner They may have been influenced in this respect by the attitudes of their missionaries in prayer and benediction The Apaches, who have received less civilized tuition, in a religious gesture corresponding with prayer spread their hands opposite the face, pal the desire to _receive_

[Illustration: Fig 206]

Fig 206 is a copy of an Egyptian tablet reproduced froe 28 A priest kneels before the great Goddess Ranno, while supplicating her favor The conception of the author is that the hands are raised by the supplicant to shi+eld his face frons for asking for _: Extend both forefingers, pointing upward, palms toward the breast, and hold the hands before the chest; then draw them inward toward their respective sides, and pass theh as the sides of the head by either cheek (_Kaiowa_ I; _Comanche_ III; _Apache_ II; _Wichita_ II) The latter, _to have mercy on another_, as made by the same tribes, is: Hold both hands nearly side by side before the chest, pal upward; thenthem by the cheeks of another person from the breast to the sides of the head

[Illustration: Fig 207]

A si 207, taken froh, _loc cit_, III, pt I, p 24

[Illustration: Fig 208]

An Indian gesture sign for _se 344 With the for 208) taken fro 209, taken froh, III, pt I, p

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