Part 15 (2/2)

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If no gesture is actually included in all of the foregoing pictographs, it is seen that a gesture sign is raphic pictures They are selected as specially transparent and clear Many others less distinct are now the subject of exa exaraphs not connected with gestures, lest it estures are always included in or connected with the 224, from the _Dakota Calendar_, refers to the small-pox which broke out in the year (1802) which it specifies Fig 225 shows in the design at the left, a warning or notice, that though a goat can clihfare” This was contributed by Mr JK Hillers, photographer of the United States Geological Survey, as observed by him in Canon De Chelly, New Mexico, in 1880

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SIGNS CONNECTED WITH ETHNOLOGIC FACTS

The present lins of Indians refer to sociologic, religious, historic, and other ethnologic facts They may incite research to elicit further infor 226]

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The Prince of Wied gives in his list of signs the heading _Partisan_, a ter a leader of an occasional or volunteer war party, the sign being reported as follows: Make first the sign of the pipe, afterwards open the thuht hand, back of the hand outward, and move it forward and upward in a curve This is explained by the author's account in a different connection, that to beconized as a leader of such a war party as above n was the consecration, by fasting succeeded by feasting, of a medicine pipe without ornament, which the leader of the expedition afterward bore before hie of authority, and it therefore naturally becan with its interpretation supplies a”One Feather,” a Sioux chief who raised in that year a large war party against the Crohich fact is si out demonstratively an unorna 227, drawn and explained by Two Strike, an Ogalala Dakota, relating to his own achievements, displays four plain pipes to exhibit the fact that he had led four war parties

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The sign of the pipe or of s is made in a different manner, when used to ers of the right hand placed against or at right angles to the mouth; (2) suddenly elevated upward and outward to imitate sether” This is illustrated in the Ojibwa pictograph, Fig 228, taken fro 229]

A cereers, separated (R), interlocked in front of the breast, hands horizontal, backs outward (_Dakota_ I) Fig 229 froesture When the idea conveyed is peace or friendshi+p with the whites, the hand shaking of the latter is adopted as in Fig 230, also taken fro to the peace made in 1855 by General Harney, at Fort Pierre, with a nu 230]

It is noticeable that while the cere hands is co hands onetiquette of the Indians in their intercourse hites, was not until very recently and is even now seldon iiving a pleasant bodily, sensation by rubbing each other on the breast, abdo The senseless and inconvenient custohout the world, and in the extent to which it prevails in the United States is a subject of ridicule by foreigners The Chinese, with a higher conception of politeness, shake their own hands The account of a recent observer of the ers of one hand over the fist of the other, so that the thuently up and down in front of his breast For special courtesy, after the foregoing gesture, they place the hand which had been the actor in it on the stomach of its owner, not on that part of the interlocutor, the whole proceeding being subjective, but perhaps a relic of objective performance” In Miss Bird's _Unbeaten Trades in japan, London_, 1880, the following is given as the salutatory etiquette of that eht of each other they slacken their pace and approach with downcast eyes and averted faces as if neither orthy of beholding each other; then they bo, so low as to bring the face, still kept carefully averted, on a level with the knees, on which the pal the friendly strife of each to give the _pas_ to the other, the palainst each other”

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The interlocking of the fingers of both hands above given as an Indian sign (other instances being mentioned under the head of SIGNALS, _infra_) is also reported by R Brough Sines of Victoria_, _loc cit_, Vol II, p 308, as made by the natives of Cooper's Creek, Australia, to express the highest degree of friendshi+p, including a special form of hospitality in which the wives of the entertainer perfor 231 is reproduced from a cut in the work referred to

But besides this interlocked for the union of friendshi+p the hands are frequently grasped together So the hand as if about to grasp that of another, and soers are laid side by side, which last sign also means, _same, brother_ and _companion_ For description and illustration of these three signs, see respectively pages 521, 527, and 317 A different execution of the sanify _friend_ is often made as follows: Hook the curved index over the curved forefinger of the left hand, the palht hand being turned toward the face; re closed

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Wied's sign for ht hand into the left, and afterward blow into the latter” All persons familiar with the Indians will understand that the terlish to express the aboriginal nificance Very few even pretended remedies were administered to the natives and probably never by the professional sha the substances mystically used, to prevent their detection

The same mixtures were employed in divination The author particularly mentions Mandan ceremonies, in which a white ” in the hand snow or the white feathers of a bird The blowing away of the disease, considered to be introduced by a supernatural power foreign to the body, was a co performance