Part 28 (2/2)

---- Left Exhausted for the present

Hold both hands naturally relaxed nearly at arth before the body, palms toward the face,the fingers to strike those of the opposite hand each time as far as the second joint (_Kaiowa_ I; _Comanche_ III; _Apache_ II; _Wichita_ II) Cleaned out

QUANtitY, LARGE; MANY; MUCH

The flat of the right hand patting the back of the left hand, which is repeated in proportion to the greater or lesser quantity (_Dunbar_) Simple repetition

The hands and arms are passed in a curvilinear direction outward and doard, as if showing the forlobe; then the hands are closed and elevated, as if soh as the face (_Long_; _Creel_)

Clutch at the air several tireatly rese the castanets (_Ojibwa_ I)

In the preceding signs the authorities have not distinguished between the ideas of ” there appears by the expressions of the authorities to be some distinction intended between a number of objects and a quantity in volume

---- MANY

A si up

(_Arapaho_ I) Literally ”a heap”

Both hands, with spread and slightly curved fingers, are held pendent about two feet apart before the thighs; then draw the theether

(_Absaroka_ I; _Shoshoni and Banak_ I; _Kaiowa_ I; _Comanche_ III; _Apache_ II; _Wichita_ II) ”An accuhteen inches froround in front and about the sa toward each other, fingers separated; then, with a divingthe hands nearly together, with fingers nearly closed, as though holding the corn, and carry upward to the height of the breast, where the hands are turned over, fingers pointing doard, separated, as though the contents were allowed to drop to the ground (_Dakota_ I, II)

Open the fingers of both hands, and hold the two hands before the breast, with the fingers upward and a little apart, and the pals

(_Iroquois_ I)

Place the hands on either side of and as high as the head, then open and close the fingers rapidly four or five ti 'tens' an indefinite number of times”

Clasp the hands effusively before the breast (_Apache_ III)

_Deaf-ers of the two hands together, tip to tip, and rub them with a rapid ers and thumbs of both hands upward and doard, and at the same time cause both lips to touch each other in rapid succession, and both eyes to be half opened (_Hasenstab_)

Move the fingers of both hands forward and backward (_Ziegler_) Add to _Ziegler's_ sign: slightly opening and closing the hands (_Wing_)

---- Horses

Raise the right arm above the head, palm forward, and thrust forward forcibly on a line with the shoulder (_Oers interlaced (_Macgowan_)

Take up a bunch of grass or a clod of earth; place it in the hand of the person addressed, who looks down upon it (_Omaha_ I) ”Represents as many or more than the particles contained in the mass”