MALUERY.] LEAN WOLF’S COMPLAINT—ANGER—DANGER, 529 
SIGNALS. 
The collaborators in the work above explained have not generally re- 
sponded to the request to communicate material under this head. It is, 
however, hoped that by now printing some extracts from published 
works and the few contributions recently procured, the attention of ob- 
servers will be directed to the prosecution of research in this direction. 
The term “ signal” is here used in distinction from the signs noted in 
the DICTIONARY, extracts from which are given above, as being some 
action or manifestation intended to be seen at a distance, and not allow- 
ing of the minuteness or detail possible in close converse. Signals may 
be executed, first, exclusively by bodily action ; second, by action of the 
person in connection with objects, such as a blanket, or a lance, or the 
direction imparted to a horse; third, by various devices, such as smoke, 
fire or dust, when the person of the signalist is not visible. When 
not simply intended to attract attention they are generally conven- 
tional, and while their study has not the same kind of importance as 
that of gesture signs, it possesses some peculiar interest. 
SIGNALS EXECUTED BY BODILY ACTION. 
Some of these are identical, or nearly so, with the gesture signs used 
by the same people. 
ALARM. See NOTES ON CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO SIGNALS, infra. 
ANGER. 
Close the hand, place it against the forehead, and turn it back and 
forth while in that position. (Col. R. B. Marcy, U. 8. A., Thirty Years 
of Army Life on the Border, New York, 1866, p. 34.) 
CoME HERE. 
The right hand is to be advanced about eighteen inches at the height 
of the navel, horizontal, relaxed, palm downward, thumb in the palm ; 
then draw it near the side and at the same time drop the hand to bring 
the palm backward. The farther away the person called is, the higher 
the hand is raised. If very far off, the hand is raised high up over the 
head and then swung forward, downward, and backward to the side. 
(Dakota I, IV.) 
DANGER. 
There is something dangerous in that place-—Right-hand index-finger 
and thumb forming a curve, the other fingers closed; move the right 
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