Part 31 (2/2)

TRIBAL SIGNS

ABSAROKA OR CROW

The hands held out each side, and striking the air in theof the bird's wings with the two hands, palht close to the shoulder (_Burton_)

Is with the two hands, palht close to the shoulder (_Creel_)

Place the flat hand as high as and in front or to the side of the right shoulder,at the wrist For h representation both hands are sometimes employed (_Arapaho_ II; _Cheyenne_ V; _Dakota_ V, VI, VIII; _Ponka_ II; _Kaiowa_ I; _Pani_ I; _Co”

Both hands extended, with fingers joined (W), held near the shoulders, and flapped to represent the wings of a crow (_Dakota_ II, III)

At the height of the shoulders and a foot outward froht hands forward and backward twice or three tiers and thumbs extended and separated a little; then place the back or the palainst the upper part of the forehead; or half close the fingers, placing the end of the thuers, and then place the back of the hand against the forehead This sign is alsoof a bird, and also indicate the manner in which the Absaroka wear their hair”

[Illustration: Fig 281]

Make with the ars (_Kutine_ I)

The flat right hand, palht shoulder, and quickly waved back and forth a few tinorant of the con, both hands are used, and the hands are h still near the shoulder (_Shoshoni and Banak_ I) ”Wings, ie, of a crow” Fig 281

APACHE

[Illustration: Fig 282]

Make either of the signs for POOR, IN PROPERTY, by rubbing the index back and forth over the extended left forefinger; or, by passing the extended index alternately along the upper and lower sides of the extended left forefinger from tip to base (_Kaiowa_ I; _Co 282 ”It is said that when the first Apache caion they now occupy he was asked who or what he was, and not understanding the language he n for _poor_, which expressed his condition”

[Illustration: Fig 283]

Rub the back of the extended left forefinger from end to end with the extended index (_Comanche_ II; _Ute_ I) ”Poor, poverty-stricken”

----, Coyotero

Place the back of the right hand near the end of the foot, the fingers curved upward, to represent the turned-up toes of the283

----, Mescalero

San as for LIPAN _qv_ (_Kaiowa_ I; _Comanche_ III; _Apache_ II; _Wichita_ II)

----, War