502 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
my brother, Fig. 317, (39) (see also pp. 385, 386) followed by the gesture, 
No. 18, directed toward the left and front—rode, (40) by No. 7—the head 
chief, (41) and No. 2—camp. 
(42) Continue by placing the hands, slightly curved, palm to palm, 
holding them about six inches below the right ear, the head being in- 
clined considerably in that direction—one sleep (night), 
(43) make sign No. 14—white man, (44) raise the left 
hand to the level of the elbow forward from the left 
hip, fingers pointing upward, thumb and forefinger 
. closed—three, (45) and in this position draw them to- 
Pel, ward the body and slightly to the right—came, (46) 
then make gesture No. 42—sleep ; (47) point. with the right index to the 
eastern horizon—in the morning, (48) make sign No. 14—vhite man, (49) 
hold the left hand nearly at arm’s length before the body, back up, 
thumb and forefinger closed, the remaining fingers pointing downward— 
three, (50) with the right index finger make gesture No. 35, the move- 
ment being directed towards the left hand—talked to them, (51) motion 
along the ground with the left hand, from the body toward the left and 
front, retaining the position of the fingers just stated (in No. 49)—they 
went, (52) tap toward the ground, as in gesture No. 6, with the left hand 
nearly at arm’s length—to their camp. 
(53) Make gesture No. 18 toward the front—JI rode, (54) extend the 
right hand to the left and front, and tap towards the earth several times 
as in sign No. 6, having the fingers and thumb collected to a point— 
camp of the white men. (55) Close both hands, with the forefingers of 
each partly extended and crooked, and place one on either side of the 
forehead, palms forward—cattle (a steer), (56) hold the left hand loosely 
extended, back forward, about twenty inches before the breast, and 
strike the back of the partly extended right hand into the left—shot, 
(57) make a short upward curved movement with both hands, their 
position unchanged, over and downward toward the right—fell over, 
killed, (58) then hold the left hand a short distance before the body at 
the height of the elbow, palm downward, fingers closed, with the thumb 
lying over the second joint of the forefinger, extend the flattened right 
hand, edge down, before the body, just by the knuckles of the left, and 
draw the hand towards the body, repeating the movement—skinned, (59) 
make the sign given in No. 25—Banak, (60) place both hands with 
spread fingers upward and palms forward, thumb to thumb, before the 
right shoulder, moving them with a tremulous motion toward the left 
and front—came in, (61) make three short movements toward the ground 
in front, with the left hand, fingers loosely curved, and pointing down- 
ward—camp of the three white men, (62) then with the right hand open 
and flattened, edge down, cut towards the body as well as to the right 
and left—eut wp the meat, (63) and make the pantomimic gesture of 
handing it around to the visitors. 
(64) Make sign No. 35, the movement being directed to the left hand, 
