638 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
a,a person weeping. The eyes have lines running down to the breast, 
below the ends of which are three short lines on either side. The arms 
and hands are in the exact position for making the gesture for rain. 
See h in Vig. 999, meaning eye-rain, and also Fig. 1002, It was probably 
the intention of the artist to show that the hands in this gesture should be 
passed downward over the face, as probably suggested by the short lines 
upon the lower end of the tears. Itis evident that sorrow is portrayed- 
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Tule river, California, 
Fic. 983.—Rock painting. 
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b, c, d, six persons apparently making the gesture for “hunger” by 
passing the hands towards and backward from the sides of the body, 
suggesting a gnawing sensation. The person, d, shown in a horizontal 
position, may possibly denote a ‘‘dead man,” dead of starvation, this 
position being adopted by the Ojibwa, Blackfeet, and others as a com- 
