430 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
combinedly describing a hemisphere. Carry up the right and, with its 
index pointing downward indicate a spiral line rising upward from the 
center of the previously formed arch. (Ojibwa V.) ‘From the dome- 
shaped form of the wigwam, and the smoke rising from the opening in 
the roof.” 
Both hands flat and extended, placing the tips of the fingers of one 
against those of the other, leaving the palms or wrists about four inches 
apart. (Absaroka 1; Wyandot 1; Shoshoni and Banak 1.) ‘From its 
exterior outline.” 
Both hands carried to the front of the breast and placed V-shaped, 
inverted, thus A, with the palms looking toward each other, edge of fin- 
gers outward, thumbs inward. (Dakota I.) ‘ From the outline of the 
tipi.” 
With the hands nearly upright, palms inward, cross the ends of the 
extended forefingers, ‘he right one either in front or behind the left, or 
lay the ends together; resting the ends of 
the thumbs together side by side, the other 
fingers to be nearly.closed, and resting 
against each other, palms inward. Rep- 
resents the tipi poles and the profile of 
» the tipi. (Dakota IV.) 
Eo Ie Place the tips of the fingers of both 
hands together in front of the breast, with the wrists some distance 
apart. (Dakota V.) Fig. 254. 
Fingers of both hands extended and separated; then interlace them 
so that the tips of the fingers of one hand protrude beyond the backs of 
those of the opposing one ; hold the hands in trontof the breast, pointing 
upward, leaving the wrists about six inches apart. (Dakota VII, VII; 
Hidatsa 1; Ponka 11; Arikara 1; Pani 1.) 
The extended hands, with finger tips upward and touching, the palms 
facing one another, and the wrists about two inches apart, are held 
before the chest. (Mandan and Hidatsa 1 ) 
Place the tip of the index against the tip of the forefinger of the left 
hand, the remaining fingers and thumbs closed, before the chest, leay- 
ing the wrists about six inches apart. (aiowa 1; Comanche Ill; Apache 
Il; Wichita II.) “Outline of lodge.” This is an abbreviated sign, and 
care must be taken to distinguish it from to meet, in which the fingers 
are brought from their respective sides instead of upward to form the 
gesture. 
Another: Place the tips of the fingers of the flat extend: d hands to- 
gether before the breast, leaving the wrists about six inches apart. 
(Katowa 1; Comanche IIL; Apache IL; Wichita I1.) 
