410 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
RK has the palm to the front instead of backward, being in all other 
respects the position which it is desired to illustrate; (R), therefore, taken 
in connection with the description, indicates that change, and that alone. 
This mode of reference is further explained in the EXAMPLES at the end 
of this paper. 
References to another title word as explaining a part of a description 
or to supply any other portions of a compound sign will always be un- 
derstood as being made to the description by the same authority of the 
sign under the other title-word. Example: In the second description 
by (Sahaptin 1) for bad, mean, above mentioned, the reference to GooD 
is to that sign for good which is contributed by Rey. G. L. DEFFEN- 
BAUGH, and is referred to as (Sahaptin 1.). 
ANTELOPE. 
Pass the open right hand outward from the small of the back. ( Wied.) 
This, as explained by Indians lately examined, indicates the lighter col- 
oration upon the animal’s flanks. A Ute who could speak Spanish ac- 
companied it with the word blanco, as if recognizing that it required 
explanation. 
With the index only extended, hold the hand eighteen or twenty 
inches transversely in front of the head, in- 
dex pointing to the left, then rub the sides 
of the body with the flat hands. (Cheyenne 
IV; Dakota V1.) ‘The latter sign refers to 
the white sides of the animal; the former could 
not be explained.” 
Extend and separate the fore- 
fingers and thumbs, nearly close 
all the other fingers, and place 
the hands with backs outward 
above and a little in front of the 4 
ears, about four inches from the 
head, and shake them back and 31 
forth several times. Antelope’s ANCES he 
horns. This is an Arapaho sign. (Dakota I, Ul, 1V.) 
Close the right hand, leaving the end of the index in the form of a hook, 
and the thumb extended as in Fig. 234; then wave the hand quickly back 
and forth a short distance, opposite the temple. (Hidatsa 1; Arikara 1.) 
“Represents the pronged horn of the animal. This is the sign ordinar- 
ily used, but it was noticed that in conversing with one of the Dakotas 
the sign of the latter (Dakota VI) was used several times, to be more 
readily understood.” 
Place both hands, fingers fully extended and spread, close to the sides 
‘of the head. Wiéied’s sign was readily understood as signifying the 
white flanks. (Apache I.) 
Fic. 234, 
