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aud the left elevated with one finger erect to signify one night; Xo. 4, 

 a circle with two marks in the middle, signifying an island with huts 

 upon it; No. 5 same as No, 1; No. (>, a circle to denote another island 

 where they touched; No. 7, similar to No. 3, with an additional finger 

 elevated, to signify two nights or sleeps; No. 8, the speaker with his 

 harpoon, the weajiou with Avhich he sometimes hunted, and with the 

 left making the gesture sign to denote sea lion. The hand is held edge- 

 wise, with the thumb elevated, then pushed outward from the body in 

 a slightly downward curve. No. 9 represents a sea lion, which the 

 hunter, No. 10, secured by shooting with bow and arrow. No. 11 is the 



4 5 6 

 Fig. 125. 

 ALASKAN NOTICE OF DEPARTURE. 



boat with two persons in it, the paddles projecting downward beneath 

 it. No. 12 is the winter habitation of the speaker. 



The record given in tig. 125 was also drawn for the present writer by 

 Yladimir Naomoff. 



Nos. 1, 3, 5, and 7 represent the person spoken to, and no arms are 

 indicated, as no response is supposed to be made by him. No. 2 indi- 

 cates the speaker with his right hand to his side or breast, indicat- 

 ing self, the left hand pointing in the direction in which he is going. 

 No. 4, both hands of the speaker are elevated, with fingers and thumbs 

 extended, signifying many. When the hands are thus held up, in sign 

 language, it signifies ten, but when they are brought toward and back- 

 ward from one another, many. Among the " Plains Indians" of Indian 

 Territory, when both hands are thus held up for ten, and then thrown 

 downward to the left, it signifies ten times ten or one hundred. The 



Fig. 126. 



ALASKAN NOTICE OV IICNT. 



latter practice of indicating any number multiplied by ten, by thus 

 throwing to the left both hands, has not been found to obtain among 

 the Alaskan natives. No. 0, the right hand is placed to the side of 

 the head to denote sleep or night; in this instance denoting many sleeps, 

 or, in other words, many nights and days; the left hand points down- 

 ward to denote at that place. No. 8, the right hand is directed toward 

 the starting point, while the left is brought upward toward the head — 

 to go home, or whence he came. 



The drawing rei)resented in fig. 120 was made by an Alaskan luitive 

 to illustrate that he contemplated making a journey to hunt, and the 



