440 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
back of the fingers of the right hand into the slightly curved palm of 
the left, immediately afterward throwing the right outward and down- 
ward toward the right. (Ute I.) ‘Killed and falling over.” 
You; I will kill you. 
Direct the right hand toward the offender and spring the finger from 
the thumb, as in the act of sprinkling water. (Long.) The conception 
is perhaps “causing blood to flow,” or, perhaps, ‘‘ sputtering away the 
life,” though there is a strong similarity to the motion used for the dis- 
charge of a gun or arrow. 
Remarks and illustrations connected with the signs for kill appear 
on pages 377 and 378, supra. 
, to, with a knife. 
Clinch the right hand and strike forcibly toward the ground before 
the breast from the height of the face. (Ute I.) ‘Appears to have 
originated when flint knives were still used.” 
No, nor. (Compare NOTHING.) 
The hand held up before the face, with the palm outward and vibrated 
to and fro. (Dunbar.) 
The right hand waved outward to the right with the thumb up- 
ward. (Long; Creel.) 
Wave the right hand quickly by and in front of the face toward the 
right. (Wied.) Refusing to accept the idea or statement presented. 
Move the hand from right to left, as if motioning away. This sign 
also means “Ill have nothing to do with you.” (Burton.) 
A deprecatory wave of the right hand from front to right, fingers 
extended and joined. (Arapaho 1; Cheyenne V.) 
Right-hand fingers extended together, side of hand in front of and 
facing the face, in front of the mouth and waved suddenly to the right. 
(Cheyenne II.) 
Place the right hand extended before the body, fingers pointing up- 
ward, palm to the front, then throw the hand outward to the right, and 
slightly downward. (Absaroka 1; Hidatsal; Arikaral.) See Fig. 65, 
page 290. 
The right hand, horizontal, palm toward the left, is pushed sidewise 
outward and toward the right from in front of the left breast. No, 
none, I have none, ete., are all expressed by this sign. Often these In- 
dians for no will simply shake the head to the right and left. This 
sign, although it may have originally been introduced from the white 
