372 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Fig. 174 is a pictograph of the Coyotero Apaches, found at Camp 
Apache, in Arizona, reported in the Tenth Ann. Rep. U. S. Geolog. and 
Geograph. Survey of the Territories for 1876, Washington, 1878, pl. lxxvii. 
The sun and the ten spots of approximately the same shape represent 
the days, eleven, which the 
/ party with five pack mules 
a passed in traveling through 
the country. The separating 
& lines are the nights, and may 
ie 
P /, include the conception of cov- 
(oy) ov) ering over and consequent ob ae 
O : scurity above referred to (page 354). 
\ A common sign for moon, month, is the right 
hand closed, leaving the thumb and index ex- 
M tended, but curved to form a half circle and the 
8 hand held toward the sky, in a position which is 
illustrated in Fig. 175, to which curve the Moqui 
Bs etching, Fig. 176, and the identical form in the 
ancient Chinese has an obvious resemblance. 
b The crescent, as we commonly figure the satel- 
lite, appears also in the Ojibwa pictograph, Fig. 
() 177 (Schooleratt, I, pl. 58), which is the same, 
with a slight addition, as the 
Egyptian figurative character. Q 
The sign for sky, also heaven, F517 
is generally made by passing the index from east to west across the 
zenith. This curve is apparent in the Ojibwa pictograph Fig. 178, re- 
ported in Schooleraft, 1, pl. 18, Fig. 21, and is abbreviated 
ae in the Egyptian character with the same 
=| meaning, Fig. 179 (Champollion, Dict., p. 1). 
FiG. 178. Fic. 179. 
Wi. 174. Fic. 177. 
A sign for cloud is as follows: (1) Both 
hands partially closed, palms facing and near each other, brought up to 
level with or slightly above, but in front of the head; (2) suddenly sep- 
arated sidewise, describ- 
ing a curve like a scal- a ; 
lop ; this scallop motion eal IONS 
is repeated for “many Fic. 180. Fic. 181. Fic. 182. 
clouds.” (Cheyenne II.) The same conception is in the Moqui etchings, 
Figs. 180, 181, and 182 (Gilbert MS.) 
The Ojibwa pictograph for cloud is more elaborate, Fig. 183, reported 
in Schooleraft, I, pl. 58. It is composed of the sign for 
2 sky, to which that for clouds is added, the latter being re- 
Ds versed as compared with the Moqui etchings, and pictur- 
yf esquely hanging from the sky. 
HN TEI The gesture sign for rain is described and illustrated on 
page 344, The pictograph, Fig. 184, reported as found in New Mexico by 
