486 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
DIALOGUES. 
TENDOY-HUERITO DIALOGUE. 
The following conversation took place at Washington in April, 1880, 
between TENDOY, chief of the Shoshoni and Banak Indians of Idaho, 
and HUERITO, one of the Apache chiefs from New Mexico, in the pres- 
ence of Dr. W. J. Horrman. Neither of these Indians spoke any lan- 
guage known to the other, or had ever met or heard of one another be- 
fore that occasion : 
Huerito.—WHO ARE You? 
Place the flat and extended right hand, palm forward,abouttwelve inches 
infrontof and as high as the shoulder, then shake the hand from side to side 
as it is moved forward and upward— 
question, who are you? Fig. 304. 
Fie. 304, 
Tendoy.—SHOSHONI CHIEF. 
Place the closed right hand near the right hip, leaving the index only 
extended, palm down; then pass the hand toward the front and left, 
rotating it from side to side—Shoshoni, Fig. 305; then place the closed 
hand, with the index extended and pointing upward, near the right 
cheek, pass it upward as high as the head, then turn it forward and 
downward toward the ground, terminating with the movement a little 
below the initial point—chief. Fig. 306. 
Huerito— How OLD ARE you? 
Clinch both hands and cross the forearms before the breast with a 
trembling motion—cold—winter, year, Fig. 307; then elevate the left 
