MALLERY. ] ANTELOPE—BAD. 411 
In connection with the above signs Fig. 255 is presented, which was 
drawn by Running Antelope, an Unepapa Dakota, as his personal totem, 
or proper name. 
BAD, MEAN. 
Make the sign for Goop and then that of Not. (Long.) 
Close the hand, and open it whilst passing it downward. ( Wied.) 
This is the same as my description; but differently worded, possibly 
notes a less forcible form. I say, however, that the arm is “extended.” 
The precise direction in which the hand is moved is not, I think, essen- 
tial. (Matthews.) This sign is invariably accompanied by a countenance 
expressive of contempt. (J. Jacker.) 
Seatter the dexter fingers outward, as if spurting away water from 
them. (Burton.) 
(1) Right hand partially elevated, fingers closed, thumb clasping the 
tips; (2) sudden motion downward and outward accompanied by equally 
sudden opening of fingers and snapping of the fingers from the thumb. 
(Cheyenne 11.) 
Right hand closed back to front is moved forcibly downward and for- 
ward, the fingers being violently opened at instant of stopping the mo- 
tion of hand. (Cheyenne LV.) 
Right hand closed (B) carried forward in front of the body toward the 
right and downward, during which the hand is opened, fingers down- 
ward, as if dropping out thecontents. (Dakotal.) ‘Not worth keeping.” 
Half close the fingers of the right hand, hook the thumb over the fore 
and middle fingers; move the hand, back upward, a foot or so toward 
the object referred to, and suddenly let the fingers fly open. Scattered 
around, therefore bad. An Arapaho sign. (Dakota IV.) 
Close the fingers of the right hand, resting the tips against the thumb, 
then throw the hand downward 
and outward toward the right to 
arm’s length, and spring open 
the fingers. Fig. 236. (Dakota 
VI, VII, VIII; Ponka 11; Panil.) 
The sign most commonly used 
for this idea is made by the hand 
being closed near the breast, with 
the back toward the breast, then 
as the arm is suddenly extended Fic. 236, 
the hand is opened and the fingers separated from each other. (Mandan 
and Hidatsa 1.) 
Hands open, palms turned in; move one hand toward, and the other 
from, the body; then vice versd. (Omaha I.) 
Throw the clinched right hand forward, downward, and outward, and 
when near at arm’s length, suddenly snap the fingers from the thumb as 
