506 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
(17) Repeated No. 8 (soldier). 
(18) Touched hair (hair). 
(19) Touched tent (quite white). 
(20) Touched top of shoulder (commissioned officer, i. e., shoulder- 
straps). 
(21) Thrust both hands up high (high rank). 
(22) Right forefinger to forehead; waved it about in front of face and 
rolled head about (primarily fool, but qualified in this case by the inter- 
preter as no sabe much). 
(23) Drew hands up his thighs and body and pointed to himself (Mes- 
calero Indian). 
(24) Approximated hands before him, palms down, with thumbs and 
indexes widely separated, as if inclosing a circle (captured, 1. e., corralled, 
surrounded). 
(25) Placed tips of hands together, wrists apart, held them erect (T, 
both hands inclined), (house; in this case the agency). 
(26) Threw both hands, palms back, forward and downward, moving 
from knuckles (metacarpo-phalangeal joint) only, several times (issuing 
rations). 
(27) Thrust two fingers (N) toward mouth and downward (food). 
(28) Repeated No. 25 (house); outlined a hemispherical object (wik-i- 
up); repeated these several times, bringing the hands with emphasis 
several times down toward the earth (village permanently here). 
(29) Repeated No. 25 several times and pointed to a neighboring hill- 
side (village over there). 
(30) Repeated Nos. 17 to 21, inclusive (General X). 
(31) Thrust two fingers forward from his eyes (primarily I see; also 
I saw, or there were). 
(32) Repeated No.11 (toward said hillside), (troops went over there with 
General X). 
(33) Repeated No. 4, adding, swept indexes around head and touched 
red paper on a tobacco wrapper (San Carlos Apaches, scouts especially 
distinguished by wearing a red fillet about the head) ; also added, drew 
indexes across each cheek from nose outward (were much painted). 
(34) Repeated No. 24 and No. 23 (to capture the Mescalero Indians). 
(35) Repeated No. 31 (there were). 
(36) Repeated No. 33 (San Carlos scouts). 
(37) Repeated No. 8 (and soldiers). 
(38) Clasped his hands effusively before his breast (so many! i. e., a 
great many). 
(39) Repeated No. 31 (Z sav). 
(40) Repeated No. 23 (my people). 
(41) Brought fists together under chin, and hugged his arms close to 
his breast, with a shrinking motion of body (afraid). 
(42) Struck off half of left index with right index (half, or a portion). 
(43) Waved off laterally and upward with both hands briskly (fled). 
