Part 25 (1/2)

----, Co a lodge_, only the fingers of the right hand point obliquely upward after passing under the left hand

(_Dakota_ I) ”Co out frohteen inches in front of the breast, palht and pass the right, back upward, with index extended, or all of the fingers extended, and pointing forward, about eighteen inches forward underneath the left through an arc from near the mouth Some at the same time move the left hand toward the breast (_Dakota_ IV)

----, Entering a

The left hand is held with the back upward, and the right hand also with the back up is passed in a curvilinear direction down under the other, so as to rub against its palm, then up on the other side of it

The left hand here represents the low door of the skin lodge and the right the _)

Pass the flat right hand in short curves under the left, which is held a short distance forward (_Wied_) I have described the san It is not necessary to pass the handcurves, he seems to imply many passes If the hand is passed more than once it means repetition of the act (_Matthews; McChesney_) The conception is of the stooping to pass through the low entrance, which is often covered by a flap of skin, sometimes stretched on a fra when the entrance has been accomplished A distinction is reported by a correspondent as follows: ”If the intention is to speak of a person entering the gesturer's own lodge, the right hand is passed under the left and toward the body, near which the left hand is held; if of a person entering the lodge of another, the left hand is held further froht is passed under it and outward In both cases both hands are slightly curved and compressed” As no such distinction is reported by others iters joined, backs up, doard, then ascending, indicative of the stooping and resu the san for LODGE, the left hand being still in position used in ht hand brought to a point and thrust through the outline of an ie represented by the left hand (_Cheyenne_ II)

First n for LODGE, then place the left hand, horizontal and slightly arched, before the body, and pass the right hand with extended index underneath the left--forward and slightly upward beyond it (_Absaroka_ I; _Dakota_ V; _Shoshoni and Banak_ I; _Wyandot_ I)

Left hand (W), ends of fingers toward the right, stationary in front of the left breast; pass the right hand directly and quickly out fro with the extended fingers of the right hand pointing outward and slightly doard, joined, palm doard flat, horizontal (W) (_Dakota_ I) ”Gone under; covered”

Hold the open left hand a foot or eighteen inches in front of the breast, palht, and pass the right hand, pal backward, froh a curve until near the mouth Some at the same time move the left hand a little forward (_Dakota_ IV)

The left hand, paler-tips forward, either quite extended or with the fingers slightly bent, is held before the body Then the right hand nearly or quite extended, pal toward it, is passed transversely under the left hand and one to four inches below it The fingers of the right hand point slightly uphen the n usually, but not invariably, refers to entering a house (_Mandan and Hidatsa_ I)

Place the slightly curved left hand, palht, then pass the flat right hand, palm down, in a short curve forward, under and upward beyond the left (_Ute_ I) ”Evidently fro an ordinary Indian lodge”

HORSE

The right hand with the edge doard, the fingers joined, the thumb recumbent, extended forward (_Dunbar_)

Place the index and er of the left [In the original the expression ”third”

finger is used, but it is ascertained in another connection that the author counts the thuenerally styled er when he says third The alteration is made to prevent confusion] (_Wied_) I have described this sign in words to the saht arers parallel and approxiht before the body at the supposed height of the animal There is no conceivable identity in the execution of this sign and _Wied's_, but his sign for _horse_ is nearly identical with the sign for _ride a horse_ an is still used by the Cheyennes (_Dodge_)

A hand passed across the forehead (_Macgowan_)

Left-hand thuhtened out, held to the level of and in front of the breast; right-hand forefinger separated froer and thrown across the left hand to i They appear to have no other conception of a horse, and have thus indicated that they have known it only as an animal to be ridden (_Creel_; _Cheyenne_ II)

Draw the right hand froers all closed except the index This is abbreviated by ht open hand from about the left elbow to the front of the body, probably indicating the n (_Cheyenne_ IV)

Place the first two fingers of the right hand, thumb extended (N 1), doard, astraddle the first two joined and straight fingers of the left hand (T 1), sidewise to the right Many Sioux Indians use only the forefinger straightened (_Dakota_ I) ”Horse ers extended and separated, reer extended, horizontal, reers astride of the forefinger of the left, and both hands jerked together, up and down, to represent theclinched and near together, palers, throw theh an ellipsis two or three times, froalloping of a horse, or the hands may be held forward and not260]

Place the extended and separated index and second fingers of the right hand astraddle of the extended forefinger of the left Fig 260

Soers of the left hand are extended in h this may be the result of carelessness

(_Dakota_ VI, VII, VIII; _Hidatsa_ I; _Ponka_ II; _Arikara_ I; _Pani_ I)