460 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
, Warm Spring. 
Hand curved (Y, more flexed) and Jaid on its back on top of the foot 
(moccasins much curved up at toe) ; then draw hands up legs to near knee, 
and cut off with edges of hands (boot tops). (Apache III.) ‘Those who 
wear booted moccasins with turn-up toes.” 
ARAPAHO. 
The fingers of one hand touch the breast in different parts, to indicate 
the tattooing of that part in points. (Long.) 
Seize the nose with the thumb and forefinger. (Randolph B. Marcy, 
captain United States Army, in The Prairie Traveler. New York, 1859, 
p. 215.) 
Rub the right side of the nose with the forefinger: some call this tribe 
the “ Smellers,” and make their sign consist of seizing the nose with 
the thumb and forefinger. (Burton.) 
Finger to side of nose. (IMacgowan.) 
Touch the left breast, thus implying what they call themselves, viz: 
the “Good Hearts.” (Arapaho 1.) 
Rub the side of the extended index against the right side of the nose. 
(Arapaho IL; Cheyenne V ; Kaiowa 1; Comanche 111; Apache IL; Wichita 
Il.) 
Hold the left hand, palm down, and fingers extended ; then with the 
right hand, fingers extended, palm inward and thumb up, make a sud- 
den stroke from left to right across the back of the fingers of the left 
hand, as if cutting them off. (Sac, Fox, and Kickapoo I.) This is be- 
lieved to be an error of the authority, and should apply tothe CHEYENNE 
tribal sign. 
Join the ends of the fingers (the thumb included) of the right hand, 
and, pointing toward the heart near the chest, throw the hand forward 
and to the right once, twice, or many times, through an are of about six 
jnches. (Dakota lV.) ‘Some say they use this sign because these In- 
dians tattoo their breasts.” 
Collect the fingers and thumb of the right hand to a point, and tap 
the tips upon the left breast briskly. (Comanche I1; Ute I.) ‘ Good- 
hearted.” It was stated by members of the various tribes at Washington, 
in 1880, that this sign is used to designate the Northern Arapahos, while 
that in which the index rubs against or passes upward alongside of 
the nose refers to the Southern Arapahos. 
Another: Close the right hand, leaving the index only extended; then 
rub it up and down, held vertically, against the side of the nose where 
it joins the cheek. (Comanche IJ; Ute I.) 
