484 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
each being in obvious connection with the several gestures, but the two 
final words were pronounced rapidly together as if they could not in the 
mind of the gesturer be applied separately to the reversed order of the 
signs for them. 
The same authority obtained the above sentence in Ponka and Pani, 
together with the following signs for it, from individuals of those tribes. 
Those signs agreed between each other, but differed from the Dakota, 
as will be observed, in the signs to my house, as signifying to my home. 
(1) Touch the breast with the tips of the extended fingers—I. This 
precedes the signs for Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5, which correspond to Nos. 1, 
2, 3, and 4 of the Dakota; then follows: (6) place the tips of the ex- 
tended fingers of the flat hands together, leaving the wrists about six 
inches apart—lodge, (7) and conclude by placing the clinched fists 
nearly at arm’s length before the body, the right several inches above 
the left, then throw them toward the ground—about six or eight inches— 
the fists retaining their relative positions—my, mine. 
ANALYSIS. 
The following is the Ponka sentence as given by the gesturer in con- 
nection with the several gestures as made: 
Seue | Na®’-ba | jae xi | a-g¢e! | ta min’/-ke | qi wi'-wi-a té/-qa, 
(1) (3) (2) (4) (5) (6) (7) 
The following is the full sentence as spoken by Ponkas without regard 
to gesture, and its literal translation: 
Na®’-ba | ja® yp a-g¢e! ta’ | min’-ke 4i wi'-wi-ya | te’-ga ze 
Two | night, if, | [gohome-| will} I who | lodge | my own the, to. 
sleep | when ward one, 
standing 
object, 
The Pani gestures were given with the accompanying words, viz: 
Pit’ ku-rét’ | ka/-ha | wi | ta-tukh’-ta | a-ka/-ru | ru-rét/-i-ru. 
(1) (3) (2) | (4) (5). (6) (7) 
I | (In) two | nights} I | am going | house to my. 
The orthography in the above sentences, as in others where the origi- 
nal text is given (excepting the Dakota and Ojibwa), is that adopted by 
Maj. J. W. POWELL in the second edition of the Introduction to the Study 
of Indian Languages. Washington, 1880. The characters more particu- 
larly requiring explanation are the following, viz: 
¢, as th in then, though. 
Rh, as ng in sing, singer ; Sp. luengo. 
y, an intermediate sound between k and g in gig. 
kh, as the German ch, in nacht. 
4, an intermediate sound betwen ¢ and d. 
Nasalized vowels are written with a superior n, thus: a”, e°. 
The following phrases were obtained by the same authority from Anto- 
nito, son of Antonio Azul, chief of the Pimas in Arizona. 
