Part 50 (1/2)
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Placing his right hand on me, he placed both his hands on his breast and breathed deeply two or three tier and thu a small pin, he placed the two hands in this position as if he were holding a thread in each hand and between the thuether, and then let his hands recede froers in the sa a thread slip between the tiht hand on his breast, then extending his forefinger of the saer pointing nearly upward, then er thus extended, fro, each tiet farther fro his left hand in a horizontal position with the fingers extended and together so that the palers together, as a hatchet, and brought it down sers of the left hand, Fig 324 Then placing his left hand, with the thuht hand, fingers in the sa soht hand away as if he were slowly casting a hair fro at his breast, and his eyes following his right--_I go about a little while longer, but will be cut off shortly andthe thuain in such a position as if he held a ser of each hand, and the hands touching each other, he drew his hands slowly frouht hand on ers extended and closed, and brought down his right hand with fingers extended and together, so as to justhis left forefinger and thuainst his heart, he acted as if he took a hair froer and thu his left hand reht hand point outward toward the distant horizon--_After a long ti his left hand upon hiht hand upon me, he extended them upward over his head and clasped the upward, then to hier of his right hand, laying his thuers about as far apart as the eyes, he brought his hand to his eyes, fingers pointing outward, and shot his hand outward--_I see you up there_ Pointing to n of _look_, then pointing to hiuht hands, and then n of _cut-off_ before described, and then extended the palht hand horizontally a foot from his waist, inside doard, then suddenly threw it half over and from him, as if you were to toss a chip fron everywhere used a time, which should never be cut off_, ie, _always_
[Illustration: Fig 323]
[Illustration: Fig 324]
Pointing upward, then rubbing the back of his left hand lightly with the forefinger of his right, he again gave the negative sign--_No Indian there_ (in heaven) Pointing upward, then rubbing his forefinger over the back of n--_No white ain, only he felt his hair with the forefinger and thu the hair several tiers--_No blackthe negative sign, rubbing the back ofof one of his hairs with the thuative sign, then using both hands as if he were reaching around a hogshead, he brought the forefinger of his right hand to the front in an upright position after their , and said thereby--_No Indian, no white n, and that for _look_, he placed the forefinger of each hand side by side pointing upward--_All look the sa his hands over his wild Indian costun, and that for _sa the ”hogshead” sign, and that for _love_, (hugging his hands), he extended both hands outward, paln exactly si it; this is the sign for _happy--All will be happy alike there_ He thento hin for _go away_, pointing to ht shoulder so his index finger pointed behind hin for _look_ and the sign of _negation_ after pointing to325]
Fig 322, an illustration in the preceding address, also represents a coht of the hip, toward the locality to be occupied by the individual invited The latter closely corresponds to an Australian gesture described by Sines of Victoria, London_, 1878, Vol II, p 308, Fig 260), as follows: ”_Minnie-minnie_ (wait a little) It is shaken doards rapidly two or three tiround, it325
_TSO-DI-A'-KO'S REPORT_
The following statement was made to Dr WJ HOFFMAN by TSO-DI-A'-KO (Shaved-head Boy), chief of the Wichitas in Indian Territory, while on a visit to Washi+ngton, DC, in June 1880
The Indian being asked whether there was any tins as follows:
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(1) Move the right hand, fingers loosely extended, separated and pointing upward, back to the front, upward froht of the waist to the front of the face--_tree_ (for illustration see Fig 112, p 343); repeat this two or three tiers extended and joined, pointing upward, with the back to the front, and push it forward toward different points on a level with the face-_standing at various places_; (3) both hands, with spread and slightly curved fingers, are held about two feet apart, before the thighs, pal, then draw theradually upward until the wrists cross, as if grasping a bunch of grass and pulling it up--_ it a little above the horizon--_country_; (5) then throw the fist edgewise toward the surface, in that direction--_ewise before the body, the left below the right, and both edges pointing toward the ground a short distance to the left of the body, then make repeated cuts toward that direction fro at nearly the sa 326; (7) hold the left hand with the fingers and thumb collected to a point, directed horizontally forward, and ht hand transversely by the tips of the left, and upon the wrist--_cut off the ends_; (8) then cut upon the left hand, still held in the sa parallel to the longitudinal axis of the palm--_split_; (9) both hands closed in front of the body, about four inches apart, with forefingers and thuround, move them forward so that the back of the hand comes forward and the half circles i 327; (10) hold the left flat hand before the body, pointing horizontally forward, with the palht side and slap the pal 328; (11) partly close the right hand as if grasping a thick rod, palht forward nearly to arers naturally extended and slightly separated nearly at ar upon the left, then pass the upper forward and doard froht is raised and the fingers point earthward--_throw off_; (13) cut the left palht hand--_build_; (14) hold both hands edgewise before the body, palers and place those of one hand into the spaces between those of the left, so that the tips of one protrude beyond the backs of the fingers of the other--_log house_, see Fig 253, p 428; (15) then place the flat right hand, palainst the breast and ood_
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analYSIS OF THE FOREGOING
[There is] much | timber | [in] | my | country | [of which I] cut down [some],| (3) (1,2) (5) (4) (6)
trion [and] | took it away, | (7) (8) (10) (9) (11)
[where I] threw [it] off | [and] built | [a] good | house |
(12) (13) (15) (14)
NOTES--As will be seen, the word _ti trees standing Sign No 3, for _many_, in this instance, as in similar other examples, becomes _much_ The word ”in,”
in connection with _country_ and _ the hand less quickly than in ordinary sign language) before iven for _possession_, would, without the prefix of indication, inifies _in n No
7, _tri off the ends, and facial expression denoting _satisfaction_ In sign Nos 11 and 12 the gestures were continuous, but at the terhtened hireater part of the labor Sign No 14 denotes _log-house_, fro the corner of a log-house, and the arrangee_ would be indicated by another sign, although the latter is often used as an abbreviation for the former, when the subject of conversation is known to all present
_LEAN WOLF'S COMPLAINT_