382 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
separated by a longer line; this means, I will give thirty beaver skins 
and a gun for the skins of the three animals on the right hand of the cross.” 
Fig. 217 is from Kingsborough, III, pt. 1, p. 25, 
Uf, and illustrates the sign for to give or to present, 
YG, made by the Brulé-Dakotas by holding both hands 
by edgewise before the breast, pointing forward and 
ty, upward, the right above the left, then throwing 
Y them quickly down- 
Uy ward until the forearms 
aan reach a horizontal po- 
4 sition. 
Fig. 218 is taken 
uy YS ~~ «from the Dakota Cal- 
Ba caes endar, representing a 
successful raid of the 
Absarokas or Crows upon the Brulé-Sioux, in which the village of 
the latter was surprised and a large number of horses captured. That 
capture is ex- ; 
hibited by the 
horse-tracks — fiji) ini] U1) LAA 
moving from the HEEL UE) AN 
village, the gest- TAA 
wich is often | 
made by acirele 
formed either 
by the opposed 
thumbs and 
forefingers of 
both hands or 
by acireular mo- 
tion of both 
hands, palms in- 
ward, toward 
each other. In 
some cases there 
is a motion of Fic. 217. 
the circle, from above downward, as formed. 
Fig. 219, from Kingsborough I, pt. 3, p. 10, represents Chapultepec, 
A ANE, “Mountain of the Locust,” by one enormous locust on top of 
A894 a hill. This shows the mode of augmentation in the same 
0929 manner as is often done by an exaggerated gesture. The 
curves at the base of the mountain are intelligible only as 
being formed in the sign for many, described on pages 359 
Fic. 218. and 488. 
Fig. 220, taken from Pipart, loc. cit., is the Mexican pictograph for soil 
cultivated, i. e., tilled and planted. Tig. 221, from the same authority, 
. 
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