MALLERY.] KATOWA——-KICKAPOO—KUTINE—LIPAN—MANDAN. 471 
Hold the left fist, palm upward, at arm’s length before the body, the 
right as if grasping the bowstring and drawn back. (Shoshoni and 
Banak I.) “From their pe- 
culiar manner of holding the 
long bow horizontally in 
shooting.” Fig. 293. 
LIPAN. 
With the index and second 
fingers only extended and 
separated, hold the hand at 
arm’s length to the front of 
the left side; draw it back 
in distinet jerks; each time 
the hand rests draw the fin- 
gers back against the inside 
of the thumb, and when the hand is again started on the next move- 
ment backward snap the fingers to full length. This is repeated five 
or six times during the one movement of the hand. The country which 
the Lipans at one time occupied contained large ponds or lakes, and 
along the shores of these the reptile was found which gaye them this 
characteristic appellation. (Kaiowa 1; Comanche 111; Apache 111; Wi- 
chita Il.) “Frogs.” Fig. 294. 
Fie. 293. 
a 
Fic, 294, 
MANDAN. 
The first and second fingers of the right hand extended, separated, 
backs outward, other fingers and thumb closed, are drawn from the 
left shoulder obliquely downward in front of the body to the right hip. 
(Dakota I.) “The Mandan Indians are known to the Sioux as ‘The 
people who wear a searlet sash, with a train,’ in the manner above de-.. 
scribed.” 
MINITARI. See HIDATSA. 
NEz Percks. See SAHAPTIN. 
