Part 32 (2/2)
ATSINA, LOWER GROS VENTRE
Both hands closed, the tips of the fingers pointing toward the wrist and resting upon the base of the joint, the thu over the ers; hold the left before the chest, pointing forward, palht, with pal sht thumb (_Absaroka_ I; _Shoshoni and Banak_ I) ”Corn-shellers”
Bring the extended and separated fingers and thumb loosely to a point, flexed at the metacarpal joints; point thethe skin (_Kaiowa_ I; _Comanche_ III; _Apache_ II; _Wichita_ II) ”They used to tattoo themselves, and live in the country south of the Dakotas”
See also the sign of (_Dakota_ I) under assINABOIN
BANAK
Make a whistling sound ”phew” (beginning at a high note and ending about an octave lower); then draw the extended index across the throat froth They used to cut the throats of their prisoners (_Pai-Ute_ I)
Major Haworth states that the _Banaks_ ht hand backward over the forehead as if forcing back the hair This represents thethe tuft of hair backward fro to this inforn for BANAK as for themselves
BLACKFEET (THIS titLE REFERS TO THE ALGONKIAN BLACKFEET, PROPERLY CALLED SATSIKA FOR THE DAKOTA BLACKFEET, OR SIHASAPA, SEE UNDER HEAD OF DAKOTA)
The finger and thuht hand, bent spoon-fashi+on, froht foot (_Burton_)
The palers of the right hand (others closed) are rubbed along the leg just above the ankle This would not seen indicating _black_ in connection with the above The sign does not, however, interfere with any other sign as made by the Sioux
(_Creel_; _Dakota_ I) ”Black feet”
Pass the flat hand over the outer edge of the right foot fro off dust (_Dakota_ V, VII, VIII) Fig 286
[Illustration: Fig 286]
Touch the right foot with the right hand (_Kutine_ I)
[Illustration: Fig 287]
Close the right hand, thuer, palh an inch or two fro the cheeks” Fig 287
CADDO
Pass the horizontally extended index froht to left under the nose (_Arapaho_ II; _Cheyenne_ V; _Kaiowa_ I; _Comanche_ I, II, III; _Apache_ II; _Wichita_ I, II) ”'Pierced noses,' fro the septun is also used for the Sahaptin For so 288]
CALISPEL SEE PEND D'OREILLE
CHEYENNE
Draw the hand across the ar it with a knife
(_Marcy_ in _Prairie Traveller_, _loc cit_, p 215)