446 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Make a rapid movement of the fingers and thumbs of both hands 
upward and downward, and at the same time cause both lips to touch 
each other in rapid succession, and both eyes to be half opened. (Has- 
enstab.) 
Move the fingers of both hands forward and backward. (Ziegler.) 
Add to Zegler’s sign: slightly opening and closing the hands. ( Wing.) 
Horses. 
Raise the right arm above the head, palm forward, and thrust for- 
ward forcibly on a line with the shoulder. (Omaha 1.) 
Persons, ete. 
Hands and fingers interlaced. (Macgowan.) 
Take up a bunch of grass or a clod of earth; place it in the hand of 
the person addressed, who looks down uponit. (OmahalI.) “ Repre- 
sents aS many or more than the particles contained in the mass.” 
Mucu. 
Move both hands toward one another and slightly upward. ( Wied.) 
I have seen this sign, but I think it is used only for articles that may be 
piled on the ground or formed into a heap. The sign most in use for the 
general idea of much or many I have given. (Matthews.) 
Bring the hands up in front of the body with the fingers carefully 
kept distinct. (Cheyenne I.) 
Both hands closed, brought up im a curved motion toward each other 
to the level of the neck or chin, (Cheyenne II.) 
Both hands and arms are partly extended; each hand is then made to 
describe, simultaneously with the other, from the head downward, the 
are of a circle curving outward. This is used for large in some senses. 
(Ojibwa V; Mandan and Hidatsa 1.) 
Both hands flat and extended, placed before the breast, finger tips 
touching, palms down; then separate them by passing outward and 
downward as if smoothing the outer surface of a globe. (Absaroka I; 
Shoshoni and Banak 1; Kaiowal; Comanche 111; Apache 11; Wichita II.) 
“A heap.” 
Much is included in many or big, as the case may require. (Da- 
kota I.) 
The hands, with fingers widely separated, slightly bent, pointing for- 
ward, and backs outward, are to be rapidly approximated through down- 
ward curves, from positions twelve to thirty-six inches apart, at the 
height of the navel, and quickly closed. Or the hands may be moved 
until the right is above the left. So much that it has to be gathered 
with both hands. (Dakota LY.) 
