Part 23 (1/2)

---- Dying

Hold the left hand as in _dead_; pass the index in the saentle, interrupted movement

(_Kaiowa_ I; _Comanche_ III; _Apache_ II; _Wichita_ II) ”Step by step; inch by inch” Fig 251

[Illustration: Fig 252]

---- Nearly, but recovers

Hold the left hand as in _dead_; pass the index with a slow, easy, interrupted _, but before passing from under the palm on the opposite side return the index in the sa; then elevate it

(_Kaiowa_ I; _Co 252

Other ree 353

GOOD

The hand held horizontally, back upward, describes with the ar_) This is like the Eurasian estively be cons for _yes_, and in opposition to several of those for _bad_ and _no_, showing the idea of acceptance or selection of objects presented, instead of their rejection

Place the right hand horizontally in front of the breast and move it forward (_Wied_) This description is essentially the same as the one I furnished (_Mandan and Hidatsa_ I) I stated, however, that the hand wasitthe o both outward and forward (_Matthews_) The left arm is elevated and the hand held in position (W) The arm and hand are thus extended frohtly bent, the arht hand, in position (W), sweeps smoothly over the left arers This sign and _Wied's_ are noticeably sin uses the left arm in conjunction and both _ that easily passes; smoothness, evenness, etc, in both (_Boteler_)

Wave the hand fro the other three fingers This sign also ers pointing to the left placed on a level with mouth, thumb inward; (2) suddenly moved with curve outward so as to present palm to person addressed (_Cheyenne_ II)

Pass the open right hand, palm doard, from the heart, twenty-four inches horizontally forward and to the right through an arc of about 90 (_Dakota_ IV) ”Heart easy or smooth”

Another: Gently strike the chest two or three tiht hand, the fingers partly flexed and pointing doard An Arapaho sign (_Dakota_ IV)

Place the flat right hand, pal the breast, then ht (_Arapaho_ II; _Cheyenne_ V; _Ojibwa_ V; _Dakota_ VI, VII, VIII; _Kaiowa_ I; _Comanche_ III; _Apache_ II; _Wichita_ II)

Pass the flat hand, palht curve to the right (_Dakota_ VI; _Hidatsa_ I; _Ankara_ I)

The extended right hand, pal to the left, is held nearly or quite in contact with the body about on a level with the stoht a foot or tith a rapid sweep, in which the forearm is moved but not necessarily the huht hand, palht and left, several times (_Oht, then on the left, palm down, several times (_Oht forefinger, shaking it a little up and down, the other fingers being closed (_O, but with the hand open, the thuer; hand held at an angle of 45 while shaking a little back and forth (_Oether, thu the wrists down, and move the fists a little apart; then reverse movements till back to first position (_Omaha_ I)

Another: Hold the left hand with back toward the ground, fingers and thuht hand opposite it, palm down, hands about six inches apart; shake the hands held thus, up and down, keeping them the same distance apart (_Omaha_ I)

Another: Hold the hands with the pal them about six inches apart (_Oht hand, first on the back, then on the palht hand, pal at a point about twelve inches before the breast (_Wyandot_ I)