MALLERY. | SIGNS IN CHINESE CHARACTERS. B57 
abbreviated character for man, Fig. 129, found in Pipart in Compte Rendu 
du Cong. Inter. des Américanistes, 2" Session, Luxembourg, 1877, 1878, 
II, 359. The figure on the right is called the abbreviated form of that 
by its side, yet its origin may be different. 
The Chinese character for man, is Fig. 130, and may have the same 
obyious conception as a Dakota x 
A} sign for the same signification: | 
“IJ “Place the extended index, point- | 
Fig 129. 
i 
ing upward and forward before the 
lower portion of the abdomen.” i 
The Chinese specific character for wo- + 
man is Fig. 131, the cross markde- i 
A noting the wrist, and if the re- 4 
mainder be considered the hand, i 
Fic. 130. the fingers may be imagined in the : 
position made by many tribes, and espe- ‘, 
cially the Utes, as depicting the SS / 
pudendum muliebre, Fig. 132. ees 
ric.131. The Egyptian generic character Fic. 128. 
for female is 3 (Champollion, Dict.,) believed to represent the curve of 
the mamm supposed to be cut off or separated from the chest, and 
the gesture with the same meaning was made by the Chey- 
enne Titchkematski, and photographed, as in Fig. 133. It forms 
the same figure as the Egyptian character as well as can be 
done by a position of the human hand. 
The Chinese character for to give water 
is Fig. 134, which may be compared with 
the common Indian gesture to drink, to give 
water, viz: ‘Hand held with tips of fingers 
UNG o IHS brought together and passed to the mouth, 
as if scooping up water”, Fig. 135, obviously from the primitive custom, 
as with Mojaves, who still drink with scooped hands. 
Another common Indian gesture sign for water to drink, I want to drink, 
is: “Hand brought downward past the mouth with loosely extended 
fingers, palm toward the face.” This appears in the Mexican character 
for drink, Fig. 136, taken from Pipart, loc. cit., p. 301. 
(hk Water, i. e., the pouring out of water with the drops fall- 
ing or about to fall, is shown in Fig. 137, taken from the 
same author (p. 349), being the same arrangement of 
them as in the sign for rain, Fig. 114, p. 344, the hand, how- fF 
ever, being inverted. Rain in the Mexican 
picture writing is shown by small circles 
oh yi inclosing a dot, as in the last two figures, 
but not connected together, each having 
Fic. 136. Fic.137. a short line upward marking the line of 
descent. 
mn, 
FG. 182. 
Fic. 134 
