Part 24 (1/2)

Move hand to position in front of breast, fingers extended, palm doard (W), then with quick movement throw hand forward and to the side to a point 12 or 15 inches from body, hand same as in first position (_Sahaptin_ I)

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HABITATION, INCLUDING HOUSE, LODGE, TIPI, WIGWAM

---- HOUSE

The hand half open and the forefinger extended and separated; then raise the hand upward and give it a half turn, as if screwing so (_Dunbar_)

Cross the ends of the extended fingers of the two hands, the hands to be nearly at right angle, radial side up, pals at the end of a log house

(_Creel_; _Dakota_ IV)

Partly fold the hands; the fingers extended in i house (_Arapaho_ I)

Both hands outspread near each other, elevated to front of face; suddenly separated, turned at right angles, palles, suddenly stopped Representing square forers of both hands extended and slightly separated, then those of the right are placed into the several spaces between those of the left, the tips extending to about the first joints (_Absaroka_ I) ”Fro”

Both hands extended, fingers spread, place those of the right into the spaces between those of the left, then move the hands in this position a short distance upward (_Wyandot_ I) ”Arrange 253]

Both hands are held edgewise before the body, palers, and place those of one hand into the spaces between those of the other, so that the tips of each protrude about an inch beyond

(_Hidatsa_ I; _Kaiowa_ I; _Arikara_ I; _Coe

253 In connection with this sign coe 379, _supra_ In ordinary conversation the sign for _white eneric tere_, and this in turn is often abbreviated, as by the Kaiowas, Co the tips of the extended forefingers together, leaving the other fingers and thumbs closed, with the wrists about three or four inches apart

Both hands held pointing forward, edges down, fingers extended and slightly separated, then place the fingers of one hand into the spaces between the fingers of the other, allowing the tips of the fingers of either hand to protrude as far as the first joint, or near it

(_Shoshoni and Banak_ I) ”Fro and alternate layers of logs”

Fingers of both hands interlaced at right angles several tin for LODGE (_Kutchin_ I)

_Deaf-ns_:

Draw the outlines of a house in the air with hands tip to tip at a right angle (_Ballard_)

Put the open hands together toward the face, forle with the arms (_Larson_)

----, Stone; Fort

Strike the back of the right fist against the palht (”idea of resistance or strength”); then with both hands opened, relaxed, horizontal, and palainst the ends of the left; then separate the their bases together The latter sign is also that of the Arapahos for _house_ An inclosure (_Dakota_ IV) The first part of this sign is that for _stone_

---- LODGE, TIPI, WIGWAM

The two hands are reared together in the forers upward (_Long_)

Place the opened thuer of each hand opposite each other, as if tobetween them a small interval; afterward n for _village_); then elevate the finger to indicate the nue I think that the sign I have given you is nearly the same with all the Upper Missouri Indians (_Matthews_)

Place the fingers of both hands ridge-fashi+on before the breast