GRAPHIC ART OF THE ESKIMOS. 955 



Sick. 



1. Place the flat right hand over the left breast, aud the left over the right side 

 below the right forearm; at the same time throw the head to one side, with eyes 

 closed, and breathe heavily— uttering slight moans, if illness be extreme. 



2. Throw the head and body to one side, breathe heavily, and lay the right arm 

 across the breast with the hand over the left breast, and lay the left hand across 

 below the right, so that the left hand touches the right forearm near the elbow, 

 " internal suffering.'" 



Cuts and fractures are indicated pantomimicall.v, after which the above sign is 

 made, to illustrate specifically the nature of the sickness. 

 Sister. 



Make the signs for i/outtf/ woman and mine. 

 Sleep. 



Bring the palm of the flat right hand toward the head, and incline the head to the 

 right at the same time, with the eyes closed. Sometimes the palm touches the ear. 

 Snow. 



Make the sign for rain; then indicate depth with the fiat right hand. This is not 

 accompanied by blowing round, as the gesture for rain. 

 Son. 



Indicate height with the Hat right hand, then make the sign for mine. 

 Stove, Native. 



Place the flat hands edgewise above and in front of their respective shoulders, 

 about 20 inches apart, then pass them earthward as far as the hips ; then pass the 

 flat right hand, palm down, from the left side to the right as high as the top of the 

 head, the left hand at the same time moving similarly from right to left and about 

 10 inches below the right. Then thrust the curved index several times toward the 

 partially opened mouth. " Form of house — on poles and oblong — and sign for eat — 

 food." Literally /ood! house. 

 Summer shelter, Temporary. 



Place the separated aud extended fingers of one hand against those of the other, the 

 wrists about 8 inches apart, then draw the hands downward and outward a short 

 distance to their respective sides; then pass the flat hands from a position in front 

 of the face, and over the spot indicating the top of the roof in the preceding gesture, 

 outward and downward to their respective sides; indicating first an angular roof of 

 sticks; second, covering of skins giving it rotundity. 

 Sun. 



Place the hands, with extended fingers upward at arm's length before the head at 

 au angle of about 70"^ ; then pass them outward, downward, and inward, indicating a 

 circle of about 12 inches in diameter; then throw the extended and separated fingers 

 upward and outward from the upper periphery of the imaginary circle, with palms 

 to the front — rays of light. "Radiating sun," "light." 

 Talk, To; Talked. 



Place the tips of the index, second finger, and thumb together; then as they are 

 moved forward a few times from the same point at a distance of about inclies before 

 the mouth, open them slightly as if letting fly that which had lieeu held by them. 

 Time, Ago. (Past time.) 



Pass the upright flat left hand, back first outward toward the left, throwing the 

 head slightly in the same direction. 

 Tobacco (Coaet sign). 



Indicate a small box by passing the flat right hand edgewise to the right arm, the 

 left toward the left, leaving a space between them of G inches; then pass both simul- 

 taneously from front to back — same distance between palms; then rub the approx- 

 imated fingertips into the left palm and put left-hand fingers into the mouth, asif 

 poking in a "quid of tobacco." 



"Taking tobacco from a box." The coast natives carry tobacco in small wooden 

 or other boxes. 



