Part 24 (2/2)

(_Burton_)

Indicate outlines (an inverted V, thus ), with the forefingers touching or crossed at the tips, the other fingers closed (_Creel_; _Arapaho_ I)

Both hands open, fingers upward, tips touching, brought doard, and at same time separated to describe outline of a cone, suddenly stopped (_Cheyenne_ II)

Both hands approxihtly arched, backs upward, withdraw the to its corresponding side, thus coht and, with its index pointing doard indicate a spiral line rising upward from the center of the previously forwa in the roof”

Both hands flat and extended, placing the tips of the fingers of one against those of the other, leaving the palms or wrists about four inches apart (_Absaroka_ I; _Wyandot_ I; _Shoshoni and Banak_ I) ”From its exterior outline”

Both hands carried to the front of the breast and placed V-shaped, inverted, thus , with the palers outward, thumbs inward (_Dakota_ I) ”Froht, palht one either in front or behind the left, or lay the ends together; resting the ends of the thuers to be nearly closed, and resting against each other, palms inward Represents the tipi poles and the profile of the tipi (_Dakota_ IV)

[Illustration: Fig 254]

Place the tips of the fingers of both hands together in front of the breast, with the wrists soers of both hands extended and separated; then interlace theers of one hand protrude beyond the backs of those of the opposing one; hold the hands in front of the breast, pointing upward, leaving the wrists about six inches apart (_Dakota_ VII, VIII; _Hidatsa_ I; _Ponka_ II; _Arikara_ I; _Pani_ I)

The extended hands, with finger tips upward and touching, the pal one another, and the wrists about two inches apart, are held before the chest (_Mandan and Hidatsa_ I)

Place the tip of the index against the tip of the forefinger of the left hand, the re the wrists about six inches apart (_Kaiowa_ I; _Coe” This is an abbreviated sign, and care uish it froht froesture

Another: Place the tips of the fingers of the flat extended hands together before the breast, leaving the wrists about six inches apart

(_Kaiowa_ I; _Comanche_ III; _Apache_ II; _Wichita_ II)

[Illustration: Fig 255]

Another: Both hands flat and extended, fingers slightly separated; then place the fingers of the right hand between the fingers of the left as far as the second joints, so that the fingers of one hand protrude about an inch beyond those of the other; the wrists must be held about six inches apart (_Kaiowa_ I; _Comanche_ III; _Apache_ II; _Wichita_ II) ”Outline of Indian lodge and crossing of tent-poles above the covering” Fig 255

Fig 256 represents a Sahaptin sign given to the writer by a gentle familiar with the northwestern tribes of Indians The conception is the sae poles at the top, shown in several other signs, differently executed

[Illustration: Fig 256]

[Illustration: Fig 257]

Place the tips of the spread fingers of both hands against one another pointing upward before the body, leaving a space of froers are sometimes bent so as to258

This, however, is accidental (_Pai-Ute_ I) ”Represents the boughs and branches used in the construction of a Pai-Ute 'wik-i-up'”

[Illustration: Fig 258]

Place the tips of the two flat hands together before the body, leaving a space of about six inches between the wrists (_Ute_ I) ”Outline of the shape of the lodge”

[Illustration: Fig 259]

Left hand and right hand put together in shape of sloping shelter (_Kutchin_ I) Fig 259

---- Great Council House

Place both flat and extended hands in front of the shoulders, pointing forward, palhtly inward near the terestures for _e_ (_Arikara_ I)