SPEECH. 373 
MALLERY.] CLOUD—RAIN—LIGHTNING 
auabeurt Simpson (Bx. Doe. No. 64, Thirty-first Congress, first session, 
850, pl. 9) is said to represent Mantes nmais adjutants sounding a blast 
to him for rain. The small 
character inside the curve 
which represents the sky, 
' corresponds with the gest- 
Peay uring hand. The Moqui 
etching (Gilbert MS.) for rain, ti. @, a 
cloud from which the drops are falling, is 
given in Fig. 185 
> b=) y 
The same authority gives ; 
twosigns for lightning, Figs. ao 
186 and 187. In the latter the sky is shown, the chang- 
ing direction of the streak, and clouds with rain fall- 
ing. The part relating specially to the streak is por- 
ar trayed in a sign as follows: Right hand elevated be- 
fore and above the head, forefinger pointing upward, brought down 
with great rapidity with a sinuous, undulating motion; finger still ex- 
Fic. 187. 
Fic. 189. 
tended diagonally downward toward the right. (Cheyenne II.) 
Figs. 188 and 189 also represent lightning, taken by Mr. W. H. Jack- 
son, photographer of the 
late U. S. Geolog. and 
Geog. Survey, from the 
decorated walls of an es- 
Fic. 190 tufa in the Pueblo de 4 
Jemez, New Mexico. The former is 
blunt, for harmless, and the latter ter- 
minating in an arrow or spear point, 
for destructive or fatal, lightning. 
A common sign for speech, speak, 
among the Indians is the repeated 4 
motion of the index in a straight line 
forward from the mouth. This line, 
indicating the voice, is shown in Fig. Fic. 191. 
190, taken from the Dakota Calendar, being the expression for the fact 
that “ the-Elk-that-hollows walking,” a Minneconjou chief, ‘‘made med- 
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