MALLERY. | NO—NONE—NOTHING. 443 
Islanders pass the forefinger across the face, striking the nose in pass- 
ing, for negation. If the no is a doubtful one they rub the nose in 
passing, a gesture common elsewhere. 
For further illustrations and comparisons see pp. 290, 298, 299, 304, 
355, and 356, supra. 
None, NotHine; I HAVE NONE. 
Motion of rubbing out. (Macgowan.) 
Tittle or nothing is signified by passing one hand over the other. 
(Creel; Ojibwa I.) 
May be signified by smartly brushing the right hand across the left 
from the wrist toward the fingers, both hands extended, palms toward 
each other and fingers joined. (Arapaho I.) 
Is included in gone, destroyed. (Dakota 1.) 
Place the open left hand about a foot in front of the navel, point- 
ing obliquely forward toward the right, palm obliquely upward and 
backward, and sweep the palm of the open right hand over it and about 
a foot forward and to the right through a curve. All bare. (Dakota 
1\Yo)] 
Another: Pass the ulnar side of the right index along the left index 
several times from tip to base, while pronating and supinating the latter. 
Some roll the right index over on its back as they move it along the 
left. The hands are to be in front of the navel, backs forward and out- 
ward, the left index straight and pointing forward toward the right, the 
right index straight and pointing forward and toward the left; the other 
fingers loosely closed. Represents a bush bare of limbs. (Dakota LV.) 
Another: With the right hand pointing obliquely forward to the left, 
the left forward to theright, palms upward, move 
them alternately several times up and down, 
each time striking the ends of the fingers. Or, 
the left hand being in the above position, rub 
the right palm in a circle on the left two orthree 
times, and then move it forward and to the right. 
Rubbed out; that is all; itis all gone. (Da- 
kota LV.) 
Pass the palm of the flat right hand over se 
the left from the wrist toward and off of the tips Fic. 
of the fingers. (Dakota VI, VII, VIIL; Ponka Il; Panil.) Fig. 272. 
Brush the palm of the left hand from wrist to finger tips with the 
palm of the right. ( Wyandot L.) 
