Part 30 (2/2)
Pass the hands in front of the body, all the fingers closed except the forefingers (_Sahaptin_ I)
Close the fingers of both hands (K); bring the the hands across each other's pathithout pern the left hand will be near and pointing at the right shoulder; right hand will be near and pointing at the left shoulder (_Coers only extended; place the right before and several inches above the left, then pass the right hand toward the left elbow and the left hand toward the right elbow, each hand following the course n, according to the informant, is also employed by the Banak and Umatilla Indians (_Coers of both hands only extended, pass the left fro its course fro when the wrists cross
(_Ute_ I) ”Exchange of articles”
Right hand carried across chest, hand extended, pal; left hand, in saht, palm doard (_Kutchin_ I)
Hands pronated and forefingers crossed (_Zuni_ I)
_Deaf-htly, as if taking so, and ive away the thing, and again close and withdraw the hand as if to take so else (_Bollard_)
An described by (_Mandan and Hidatsa_ I)
---- To buy
[Illustration: Fig 279]
Hold the left hand about twelve inches before the breast, the thuers; the fore and second fingers separated and extended, palm toward the breast; then pass the extended index into the crotch forers of the left hand This is an invented sign, and was given to illustrate the difference between buying and trading (_Ute_ I) Fig 279
_Deaf-n_:
Make a circle on the palht hand, to denote _coin_, and close the thuer as if to take theit to some one, and move the hand a little apart from the place where it left the money, and then close and withdraw the hand, as if to take the thing purchased (_Ballard_)
_Italian sign_:
To indicate paying, in the language of the fingers, one , piece after piece, froesture, however, far less expressive than that when ait; or siether the thu out the hand (_Butler_) An illustration froe 297, _supra_
---- EXCHANGE
The two forefingers are extended perpendicularly, and the hands are then passed by each other transversely in front of the breast so as nearly to exchange positions (_Long_)
Pass both hands, with extended forefingers, across each other before the breast (_Wied_) See ren for TRADE, _supra_
Hands brought up to front of breast, forefingers extended and other fingers slightly closed; hands suddenly draard and past each other until foreare; right hand exchanging position with the left”
Left hand, with forefinger extended, others closed (M, except back of hand outward), is brought, arm extended, in front of the left breast, and the extended forefinger of the right hand, obliquely upward, others closed, is placed crosswise over the left and ers of the right hand are relaxed (as in Y), brought near the breast with hand horizontal, palht breast twenty inches, with pal forward, hand horizontal, and then the left hand performs the same ive ive you”
The hands, backs forward, are held as index hands, pointing upward, the elbows being fully bent; each hand is then, simultaneously with the other, moved to the opposite shoulder, so that the forearles (_Mandan and Hidatsa_ I)
YES; AFFIRMATION; IT IS SO (COMPARE GOOD)
The er in the attitude of pointing, fro a little upward, the other fingers being carefully closed; but the finger is held rather htforward from opposite the breast, and when at the end of its course it seeh with rather a slow and not suddenly accelerated ht forward from the face (_Burton_) This may be compared with the forward nod coesture is not universal, as the New Zealanders elevate the head and chin, and the Turks are reported by several travelers to shake the head soative Rev HN
Barnuesture observed by him