MALLERY. | WICHITA—w YANDOT—PROPER NAMES. ATT 
MIssourt RIVER. 
Make the sign for water by placing the right hand upright six or 
eight inches in front of the mouth, back outward, index and thumb 
crooked, and their ends about an inch apart, the other fingers nearly 
closed; then move it toward the mouth, and then downward nearly to 
the top of the breast-bone, at the same time turning the hand over to- 
ward the mouth until the little finger is uppermost; and the sign for 
large as follows: The opened right hands, palms facing, fingers re- 
laxed and slightly separated, being at the height of the breast and 
about two feet apart, separate them nearly to arm’s length; and then 
rapidly rotate the right hand from right to left several times, its back 
upward, fingers spread and pointing forward to show that it is stirred 
up or muddy. (Dakota LV.) 
EAGLE BULL, a Dakota chief. 
Place the clinched fists to either side of the head with the forefingers 
extended and curved, as in Fig. 298; then extend the left hand, flat, 
palm down, before the left side, 
fingers pointing forward; the 
outer edge of the flat and ex- 
tended right hand is then laid 
transversely across the back of 
the left hand, and slid forward 
over the fingers as in Fig. 299. 
(Dakota V1; Arikara I.) “Bull 
Fic. 299. Fic. 298, 
and eagle—‘ Haliaétus leucocephalus, (Linn.) Sav?” In the pieture-writ- 
ing of the Moquis, Fig. 300 represents the eagle’s tail as showing the 
difference of color which is indicated in the latter part of the 
above gesture. 
RhusHING BEAR, an Arikara chief. 
Place the right fist in front of the right side of the breast, 
palm down; extend and curve the thumb and little finger so 
that their tips point toward one another before the knuckles 
of the remaining closed fingers, then reach forward a short distance and 
Fic. 300. 
