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and second finger of the right hand upward froin the forehead, spirally, 
and is considered to indicate ‘‘superior knowledge.” Among the Otos, 
as part of the 
sign with the 
same meaning, 
both hands are 
raised to theside 
of the head, and 
the extended in- 
dices pressing 
the temples. 
Fig. 215 is also an 
Ojibwa pictograph from 
Schooleraft I, p\.59, and 
is Said to signify JJeda’s 
power. It corresponds 
with another sign made 
for medicine-man by the 
Absarokas and Coman- 
ches, viz, The hand 
passed upward before 
the forehead, with in- 
dex loosely ex- 
tended. Com- 
bined with the 
sign for sky, be- 
Fic.211. fore given, page 
372, it means knowledge of superior matters; spiritual power. 
The common sign for trade is made by extending the forefingers, hold- 
ing them obliquely upward, and crossing 
them at right angles to one another, usu- 
ally in front of the chest. This is often 
abbreviated by merely crossing the fore- 
fingers, see Fig. 278, page 452. 
It is illustrated in Fig. 216, taken 
from the Prince of Wied’s Travels 
in the Interior of North America; 
Fig. 212. London, 1843, p. 352. eae: 
To this the following explanation is given: “The cross signifies, ‘I 
will barter or trade” Three animals are drawn on the right hand of the 
cross; one is a buffalo; the two others, a weasel (J/ustela 
Canadensis) and an otter. The writer offers in 
exchange for the skins of these animals (proba- \ 
bly meaning that of a white buffalo) the articles 
Fic. 214. which he has drawn on the left side of the cross. 
He has, in the first place, depicted a beaver very plainly, behind which 
there is a gun; to the left of the beaver are thirty strokes, each ten 
Fic. 210. 
Fic. 215. 
