MALLERY. } NOTHING—QUANTITY—MANY. 445 
QUANTITY, LARGE; MANY; MUCH. 
The flat of the right hand patting the back of the left hand, which is 
repeated in proportion to the greater or lesser quantity. (Dunbar.) 
Simple repetition. 
The hands and ar ns are passed in a curvilinear direction outward and 
downward, as if showing the form of a large globe; taen the hands are 
closed and elevated, as if something was grasped in each hand and held 
up about as high as the face. (Long; Creel.) 
Clutch at the air several times with both hands. The motion greatly 
resembles those of danseuses playing the castanets. (Ojibwa L.) 
In the preceding signs the authorities have not distinguished between 
the ideas of “many” and “much.” In the following there appears by 
the expressions of the authorities to be some distinction intended be- 
tween a number of objects and a quantity in volume. 
MANY. 
A simultaneous movement of both hands, as if gathering or heaping 
up. (Arapaho I.) Literally ‘“‘a heap.” 
Both hands, with spread and slightly curved fingers, are held pendent 
about two feet apart before the thighs; then draw them toward one 
another, horizontally, drawing them upward as they come together. 
(Absaroka 1; Shoshoni and Banak 1; Kaiowal; Comanche Il; Apache 
Il; Wichita II.) “An accumulation of objects.” 
Hands about eighteen inches from the ground in front and about the 
same distance apart, held scoop-fashion, palms looking toward each 
other, fingers separated; then, with a diving motion, as if scooping 
up corn from the ground, bring the hands nearly together, with fingers 
nearly closed, as though holding the corn, and carry upward to the 
height of the breast, where the hands are turned over, fingers pointing 
downward, separated, as though the contents were allowed to drop to 
the ground. (Dakota I, II.) > 
Open the fingers of both hands, and hold the two hands before the 
breast, with the fingers upward and a little apart, and the palms turned 
toward each other, as if grasping a number of things. (Iroquois I.) 
Place the hands on either side of and as high as the head, then open 
and close the fingers rapidly four or five times. (Wyandot I.) ‘Count- 
ing ‘tens’ an indefinite number of times.” 
Clasp the hands effusively before the breast. (Apache III.) 
Deaf-mute natural signs 5 
Put the fingers of the two hands together, tip to tip, and rub them 
with a rapid motion. (Ballard.) 
