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the Hidatsa, is shown below in this paper, see Fig. 334, page 528. That - 
for much (Cheyenne I, Comanche II1), see Fig. 274, page 447, is to be cor- 
related with the above. 
The sign for to be told or talked to, and for the reception of speech, by 
the tribes gen- 
erally, is made 
by placing the »~% 
flat right hand, 
palm upward, 
about fifteen inches in front of the right side of the face or breast, 
fingers pointing to the left, then drawing the hand toward the Benen 
of the chin, and is illustrated in Fig. 71, page 291. The Comanche sign 
for give or asking is shown in Fig. 301, page 480 (Comanche III), and is 
made by bringing the hand toward the body but a short distance, and the 
motion repeated, the tips of the fingers indicating the outline of a circle. 
The tribal sign for Kaiovwa, illustrated in its placeamong the TRIBAL 
SIGNS, is made by holding the hand with extended and separated fingers 
and thumb near the side of the head, back outward, and giving it a 
rotary motion. This gesture is made in front of the face by many tribes. 
The generic sign for deer, made by the Dakota and some others, is by hold- 
ing the hand motionless at the side of the head, with extended and sepa- 
rated thumb and fingers, representing the branched antlers. That for 
fool, reported from the same Indians, is the same as above described 
for Kaiowa, which it also signifies, though frequently only one or two 
fingers are used. 
The tribal sign both for the Sahaptin or Nez Percés and for Caddo (see 
TRIBAL SIGNs) is made by passing the extended index, pointing under. 
the nose from right fo left. When the second finger is not tightly closed 
it strongly resembles the sign often made for lie, falsehood, by passing 
the extended index and second fingers separated toward the left, over 
the mouth. 
The tribal sign for Cheyenne (see TRIBAL S1Gns) differs from the sign 
for spotted ouly in the finger (or hand) in the latter being alternately 
passed across the upper and lower sides of the left forearm. 
The sign for steal, theft, see Fig. 75, page 293, is but slightly different 
from that for bear, see Fig. 259, page 413, especially when the latter is 
made with one hand only. The distinction, however, is that the grasp- 
ing in the latter sign is not followed by the idea of concealment in the 
former, which is executed by the right hand, after the motion of grasp- 
ing, being browght toward and sometimes under the left armpit. 
Cold and winter, see Tendoy-Huerito Dialogue, page 486, may be com- 
pared with love, see Kin Ché-éss’ speech, page 521, and with prisoner. In 
these the difference consists in that cold and winter are represented by 
crossing the arms with clinched hands before the breast; love by crossing 
the arms so as to bring the fists more under the chin, and prisoner by 
holding the crossed wrists a foot in front of the breast. 
Melon, squash, muskmelon, used by the Utes and Apaches, is made by 
