310 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Fig. 195 is one of Landa’s characters, found in Rel. des choses de Yuca- 
tan, p. 316, and suggests one of the gestures for talk and more especially 
that for sing, in which the 
extended and separated 
fingers are passed forward 
and slightly downward 
from the mouth—‘ many 
voices.” Although the 
last opinion about the 
bishop is unfavorable to 
the authenticity of his 
work, yet even if it were 
prepared by a Maya, un- 
der his supervision, the 
latter would probably 
have given him some gen- 
uine native conceptions, 
and among them gestures 
would be likely to occur. 
The natural sign for 
hear, made both by In- 
dians and deaf-mutes, 
consisting in the motion 
of the index, or the index 
and thumb joined, in a 
straight line to the ear, is 
illustrated in the Ojibwa 
pictograph Fig. 196, 
‘hearing ears,” and those 
of the same people, Figs. 
197 and 198, the latter 
of which is a hearing serpent, and the former means “T hear, but your 
words are from a bad heart,” the hands being thrown out as in the 
final part of a gesture for bad heart, which is . 
made by the hand being closed and held near ae 
the breast, with the back toward the breast, x 
then as the arm is suddenly extended 4 
the hand is opened and the fingers \ 
separated from each other. 
(Mandan and Hidatsa 1.) 3 5 
The final part of the gest- aa sae 
ure, representing the idea of bad, not connected with heart, is illustrated 
in Fig. 236 on page 411. 
The above Ojibwa pictographs are taken from Schooleratt, loc. cit. 1, 
plates 58, 53, 59. 
Fig. 199, a bas-relief taken from Dupaix’s Monuments of New Spain, 
Fia. 194. 
Fic. 195. Fic, 196. 
