464 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Cappo. 
Pass the horizontally extended index from right to left under the nose. 
Arapaho I1; Cheyenne V; Kaiowa 1; Comanche I, 11, IL; Apache II; 
Wichita 1,11.) ‘‘ Pierced noses,’ from former custom of perforating the 
septum for the reception of rings.” Fig. 288. This sign is also used for 
the Sahaptin. For some remarks see page 345, 
CALISPEL. See PEND D’OREILLE. 
CHEYENNE. 
Draw the hand across the arm, to imitate cutting it with a knife. 
(Marcy in Prairie Traveller, loc. cit., p. 215.) 
Draw the lower edge of the right hand across the left arm as if 
gashing it with a knife. (Burton.) 
With the index-finger of the right hand proceed as if cutting the left 
arm in different places with a sawing motion from the wrist upward, to 
represent the cuts or burns on the arms of that nation. (Long.) 
3ridge palm of left hand with index-finger of right. (J/acgowan.) 
Draw the extended right hand, fingers joined, across the left wrist as 
if cutting it. (Arapaho I.) 
Pass the ulnar side of the extended index repeatedly across the ex- 
tended finger and back of 
the left hand. Trequently, 
however, the index is drawn 
across the wrist or forearm, 
(Arapaho I1; Cheyenne V; 
Ponka Yl; Pani I.) Fig. 
ANG. 280 289. See p. 345 for remarks. 
The extended index, palm upward, is drawn across the forefinger of 
the left hand (palm inward), several times, left hand stationary, right 
