510 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
fingers, thumb resting upon tip of fourth—another, 7. e., joined by a third, 
and pronounced the words ‘o-gwis-san Sa-ba-dis (this is a corruption 
of the French “Jean Baptiste,” a favorite name among Christianized 
Indians)—John Baptist, his son, while repeating the movement. 
(19) “Held up the three separated fingers perpendicularly in front of 
the face, pushing the hand forward a little—three in all. 
(20) Presently lowered the hand, fingers relaxing, and carried it a 
short distance toward the left, thence back to the right, fingers pointing 
obliquely toward the ground in each case—placed to the right and left 
of me at a short distance. 
(21) He then brought the hand—back toward the right, index hori- 
zontally extended, remaining fingers closed, thumb placed against sec- 
ond finger—in front of abdomen, and moved it slowly up and down two 
or three times, giving it a slight jerk at the upward motion, and raising 
the arm partially in doing so. At the same time he inclined the body 
forward a little, eyes looking down—fishing. This refers to fishing on 
the ice, and, as may be inferred from it, to the use of hook and line. A 
short stick to which the line is attached serves as a rod and is moved 
up and down in the manner described. 
(22) After a short pause he elevated the hand, directing the index 
toward that point of the meridian which the sun passes at about the 
tenth hour of the day, and following the direction with the eye—about 
ten o’clock. 
(23) Turning his face toward the southwest and holding up the flat 
and extended hand some distance in front of it, back outward, he waved 
it briskly and several times toward the face—fresh breeze from the south- 
west. 
(24) Repeated No. 21 (fishing), playing the imaginary fish-line up and 
down regularly for a while, till all at once he changed the movement by 
raising the hand in an oblique course, which movement he repeated 
several times, each time increasing the divergence and the length of 
the motion—the jish-hook dont sink perpendicularly any longer, 7. e., it is 
moving. 
(25) Quickly erecting his body he looked around him with surprise— 
looking with surprise. 
(26) Shading his eyes with the hand, gazed intensively toward the 
south—/fixedly gazing toward the south. 
(27) Threw up his arm almost perpendicularly the next moment— 
greatly astonished. 
(28) Extended and slowly moved the arm from southeast to north- 
west as far as he could reach, at the same time exclaiming ‘mig-wam” 
“ice”— the ice from shore to shore. 
(29) Approximated the flat and horizontally extended hands, backs 
upward, with their inner edges touching, whereupon, suddenly turning 
the edges downward, he withdrew them laterally, backs nearly opposed 
to each other—parting. ‘ 
