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Hand curved (Y, more flexed) and laid on its back on top of the foot (_s to near knee, and cut off with edges of hands (_boot tops_) (_Apache_ III) ”Those ear booted ers of one hand touch the breast in different parts, to indicate the tattooing of that part in points (_Long_)

Seize the nose with the thuer (Randolph B Marcy, captain United States Army, in _The Prairie Traveler_ _New York_, 1859, p 215)

Rub the right side of the nose with the forefinger: son consist of seizing the nose with the thuer to side of nose (_Macgowan_)

Touch the left breast, thus i what they call themselves, viz: the ”Good Hearts” (_Arapaho_ I)

Rub the side of the extended index against the right side of the nose

(_Arapaho_ II; _Cheyenne_ V; _Kaiowa_ I; _Comanche_ III; _Apache_ II; _Wichita_ II)

Hold the left hand, palers extended, palht across the back of the fingers of the left hand, as if cutting them off (_Sac, Fox, and Kickapoo_ I) This is believed to be an error of the authority, and should apply to the CHEYENNE tribal sign

Join the ends of the fingers (the thu toward the heart near the chest, throw the hand forward and to the right once, twice, or h an arc of about six inches (_Dakota_ IV) ”Son because these Indians tattoo their breasts”

Collect the fingers and thuht hand to a point, and tap the tips upon the left breast briskly (_Comanche_ II; _Ute_ I) ”Goodhearted” It was stated by ton, in 1880, that this sign is used to designate the Northern Arapahos, while that in which the index rubs against or passes upward alongside of the nose refers to the Southern Arapahos

Another: Close the right hand, leaving the index only extended; then rub it up and down, held vertically, against the side of the nose where it joins the cheek (_Coht hand, are brought to a point, and tapped upon the right side of the breast (_Shoshoni and Banak_ I)

ARIKARA (CORRUPTLY ABBREVIATED REE)

I the left hand stationary, the shelling being done with the right (_Creel_) Fig 284

With the right hand closed, curve the thumb and index, join their tips so as to form a circle, and place to the lobe of the ear (_Absaroka_ I; _Hidatsa_ I) ”Big ear-rings” Fig 285

Both hands, fists, (B, except thu toward the sides of the body, thumbs obliquely upward, left hand stationary, the backs of the fingers of the two hands touching, carry the right thumb forward and backward at the inner side of the left thu the hand fro corn (_Dakota_ I, VII, VIII)

Collect the fingers and thu or dotting motion toward the upper portion of the cheek This is the old sign, and was used by the ”corn-eaters” (_Arikara_ I)

[Illustration: Fig 284]

[Illustration: Fig 285]

Place the back of the closed right hand transversely before the mouth, and rotate it forward and backward several tiesture may be accompanied, as it so, to illustrateof the rotation of the fist

(_Kaiowa_ I; _Co corn fronified by the saers that are used in shelling corn The dwarf Ree (Arikara) corn is their peculiar possession, which their tradition says was given to the, who led them to the Missouri River and instructed them how to plant it (Rev CL Hall, in _The Missionary Herald_, April, 1880) ”They are the corn-shellers” Have seen this sign used by the Arikaras as a tribal designation (_Dakota_ II)

assINABOIN

Hands in front of abdo toward one another, separated and arched (H), then,a corpulent body

This sign is also used to indicate the Gros Ventres of the Prairie or Atsina (_Dakota_ I)

Make the sign of _cutting the throat_ (_Kutine_ I) As the assinaboins belong to the Dakotan stock, the sign generally given for the Sioux ht hand flattened, for it fro to the left, and the back forward (_Shoshoni and Banak_ I) ”Big bellies”