454 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Italian sign: 
To indicate paying, in the language of the fingers, one makes as 
though he put something, piece after piece, from one hand into the other 
—a gesture, however, far less expressive than that when a man lacks 
money, and yet cannot make up a face to beg it; or simply to indicate 
want of money, which is to rub together the thumb and forefinger, at 
the same time stretching out the hand. (Buwéler.) An illustration from 
De Jorio of the Neapolitan sign for money is given on page 297, supra. 
EXCHANGE. 
The two forefingers are extended perpendicularly, and the hands are 
then passed by each other transversely in front of the breast so as nearly 
to exchange positions. (Zong.) 
Pass both hands, with extended forefingers, across each other before 
the breast. (Wéed.) See remarks on this author’s sign for TRADE, 
supra. ; 
Hands brought up to front of breast, forefingers extended and other 
fingers slightly closed; hands suddenly drawn toward and past each 
other until forearms are crossed in front of breast. (Cheyenne II.) “Ex- 
change; right hand exchanging position with the left.” 
Left hand, with forefinger extended, others closed (M, except back of 
hand outward), is brought, arm extended, in front of the left breast, and 
the extended forefinger of the right hand, obliquely upward, others 
closed, is placed crosswise over the left and maintained in that position 
for a moment, when the fingers of the right hand are relaxed (as in nya): 
brought near the breast with hand horizontal, palm inward, and then 
carried out again in front of right breast twenty inches, with palm look- 
ing toward the left, fingers pointing forward, hand horizontal, and then 
the left hand performs the same movements on the left side of the body, 
(Dakota I.) ‘You give me, I give you.” 
The hands, backs forward, are held as index hands, pointing upward. 
the elbows being fully bent; each hand is then, simultaneously with the 
other, moved to the opposite shoulder, so that the forearms cross one 
another almost at right angles. (Mandan and Hidatsa 1.) 
YES; AFFIRMATION; It Is SO. (Compare Goon.) 
The motion is somewhat like truth, viz: The forefiriger in the attitude 
of pointing, from the mouth forward in aline curving alittle upward, the 
other fingers being carefully closed ; but the finger is held rather more 
upright, and is passed nearly straight forward from opposite the breast, 
