MALEERY.| HORSE—KILL, 437 
is drawn across edgewise in front of the face. The hand is then closed 
and in position (B) approaches the mouth from which it is opened and 
closed successively forward several times, finally it is suddenly thrust 
out in position (W 1) back concave. (Oto and Missouri 1.) “Is ex- 
pressed in the (Oto I) sign for Horss, then the motion for quick run- 
ning.” 
——— Racing. 
Extend the two forefingers and after placing them parallel near 
together in front of the chest, backs upward, push them rapidly for- 
ward about a foot. (Dakota IV.) 
Place both hands, with the forefingers only extended and pointing 
forward side by side with the palms down, before the body; then push 
them alternately backward and forward, in imitation of the movement 
of horses who are running “neck and neck.” (Ute 1; Apache I, 11.) 
, Saddling a. 
Hold the left hand as in the sign for HORSE, Packing a, and lay the 
semiflexed right hand across its upper edge two or three times, the ends 
of the right fingers toward the left. (Dakota IV.) 
Place the extended and separated fingers rapidly 
with a slapping sound astraddle the extended fore 
and second fingers of the left hand. The sound is j 
produced by the palm of the right hand which comes Fic. 267. 
in contact with the upper surface of the left. (Ute I.) Fig. 267. 
———, Spotted ; pied. 
Make the sign for Hors&, then the sign for SPOTTED, see page 345. 
(Dakota IV.) 
KILL, KILLine. 
The hands are held with the edge upward, and the right hand strikes 
the other transversely, as in the act of chopping. This sign seems to be 
more particularly applicable to convey the idea of death produced by 
a blow of the tomahawk or war-club. (Long.) 
Clinch the hand and strike from above downward. ( Wied.) I do not 
remember this. I have given you the sign for killing with a stroke. 
(Matthews.) There is an evident similarity in conception and execution 
between the (Oto and Missouri 1) sign and Wied’s. (Boteler.) I have 
frequently seen this sign made by the Arikara, Gros Ventre, and Man- 
dan Indians at Fort Berthold Agency. (JZcChesney.) This motion, 
which may be more clearly expressed as the downward thrust of a knife 
held in the clinched hand, is still used by many tribes for the general 
idea of “kill,” and illustrates the antiquity of the knife as a weapon. 
Wied does not say whether the clinched hand is thrust downward with 
