MALLERY.] PICTOGRAPHS—SPEECH—VOICE. 375 
doubt announces that he will do, as the line from his mouth to the head 
of the animal suggests. The Indianin the upper left-hand corner is told 
by a squaw to take an arrow and join hiscompanions, when he turns his 
head to inform her that he has one already, which fact he demonstrates 
by holding up the weapon. 
Fic. 193. 
The Mexican pictograph, Fig. 194, taken from Kingsborough, II, pt. 
1, p. 100, is illustrative of the sign made by the Arikara and Hidatsa for 
tcll and conversation. Tell me is: Place the flat right hand, palm up- 
ward, about fifteen inches in front of the right side of the face, fingers 
pointing to the left and front; then draw the hand inward toward and 
against the bottom of the chin. For conversation, talking between two 
persons, both hands are held before the breast, pointing forward, palms 
up, the edges being moved several times toward one another. Perhaps, 
however, the picture in fact only means the common poetical image of 
“flying words.” 
