Part 51 (1/2)

Close the hand, place it against the forehead, and turn it back and forth while in that position (Col RB Marcy, USA, _Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border_, _New York_, 1866, p 34)

COME HERE

The right hand is to be advanced about eighteen inches at the height of the navel, horizontal, relaxed, palm doard, thumb in the palm; then draw it near the side and at the sa the palher the hand is raised If very far off, the hand is raised high up over the head and then swung forward, doard, and backward to the side

(_Dakota_ I, IV)

DANGER

_There is soer and thuht hand forward, pointing in the direction of the dangerous place or aniht-hand index and nifies ”I do not fear you” Reverse thethe hand toward the subject, means ”Do your worst to me” (_Omaha_ I)

DIRECTION

_Pass around that object or place near you_--she-i-he ti-dha-ga--When a man is at a distance, I say to hi the hand above the head, forefinger open,to direction intended and hand that is used, ie, ht, use left hand (_Omaha_ I; _Ponka_ I)

HALT!

---- To inquire disposition

Raise the right hand with the palradually push it forward and back several times; if they are not hostile it will at once be obeyed (Randolph B Marcy, _The Prairie Traveler_ _New York_, 1859, p 214)

---- Stand there! He is coewise, moved doard several ti toward you

Hold the open right hand, palers toward the person signaled to; thrust the hand forward in either an upward or doard curve (_Omaha_ I; _Ponka_ I)

---- Lie down flat where you are--she-dhu bis-pe zhan'-ga

Extend the right ar the palrees to about the knees

(_Omaha_ I; _Ponka_ I)

PEACE; FRIENDshi+P

Hold up palm of hand--Observed as , _Indian Sketches_ _Philadelphia_, 1835, vol ii, p 253)

Elevate the extended hands at arth above and on either side of the head Observed by Dr WJ Hoffman, as made in Northern Arizona in 1871 by the Apaches, Mojaves, Hualpais, and Seviches ”No ar 335

[Illustration: Fig 335--A signal of peace]

[Illustration: Fig 336--Signal, ”Who are you?” Answer, ”Pani”]

The right hand held aloft, empty (General GA Custer, _My Life on the Plains_, _New York_, 1874, p 238) This may be collated with the lines in Walt Whith the perpendicular hand,--I nals of friendshi+p to La Salle's party by the joining of the two hands of the signalist,Tonty, La Salle's lieutenant, in command of the advance in the descent of the Mississippi, who could not return the signal, having but one hand His ry, _Decouvertes et etablissments des Francais dans l'ouest et dans le sud de l'Amerique Septentrionale, &c_)