MALLERY. | SIGNALS: DRILL—PEACE. 535 
either in or out, indifferently, as if he were trying to shield his eyes 
from the excessive light of the sun. This implies, “I, too, am for 
peace,” or “TI accept your overture.” (Sac, Fox, and Kickapoo I.) It is 
interesting in this connection to note the reception of Father Marquette 
by an Illinois chief who is reported to have raised his hands to his eyes 
as if to shield them from overpowering splendor. That action was sup- 
posed to be made in a combination of humility and admiration, and a 
pretended inability to gaze on the face of the illustrious guest has been 
taken to be the conception of the gesture, which in fact was probably 
only the holding the interlocked hands in the most demonstrative pos- 
ture. An oriental gesture in which the flat hand is actually interposed 
as a shield to the eyes before a superior is probably made with the poet- 
ical conception erroneously attributed to the Indian. 
The display of green branches to signalize friendly or pacific inten- 
tions does not appear to have been noticed among the North Ameri- 
can Indians by trustworthy observers. Captain Cook makes frequent 
mention of it as the ceremonial greeting among islands he visited. See 
his Voyage toward the South Pole. London, 1784, Vol. Il, pp. 30 and 35. 
Green branches were also waved in signal of friendship by the natives 
of the island of New Britain to the members of the expedition in charge 
of Mr. Wilfred Powell in 1878. Proceedings of the Royal Geological So- 
ciety, February, 1881, p. 89. 
Har! 
Stand there! he is coming this way. 
Grasp the end of the blanket or robe; wave it downward several 
times. (Omaha I.) 
To inquire disposition. 
Wave the folded blanket to the right and left in front of the body, 
then point toward the person or persons approaching, and carry it from 
a horizontal position in front of the body rapidly downward and up- 
ward several times. (Dakota 1.) 
MAny. 
Wave the blanket directly in front of the body upward and downward 
several times. Many of anything. (Dakota 1.) 
PEACE, COUPLED WITH INVITA‘ ION. 
Motion of spreading a real or imaginary robe or skin on the ground. 
Noticed by Lewis and Clark on their first meeting with the Shoshoni in 
1805. (Lewis and Clark’s Travels, &c., London, 1817, vol. ii, p. 74.) This 
signal is more particularly described as follows: Grasp the blanket by 
the two corners with the hands, throw it above the head, allowing it to 
unfold as it falls to the ground as if in the act of spreading it. 
