MALLERY. } GESTURE SIGN FOR WATER. 643 
The abbreviated Egyptian sign for water as a stream is f,in Fig. 999, 
taken from Champollion, loc. cit., and the Chinese for the same is as in 
g, Same figure. 
In the picture writing of the Ojibwa the Egyptian abbreviated ° 
character, with two lines instead of ; ST 
three, appears with the same signifi- 2 
cation. 
The Egyptian character for weep, 
h, in Fig. 999, i. e., an eye with teays 
falling, is also found in the picto- 
graphs of the Ojibwa, published by 
Schooleraft (0), and is also made by ~ 
the Indian gesture of drawing lines « 
by the index repeatedly downward ° 
from the eye, though perhaps more 
frequently made by the full sign for ‘es 
rain—made withthe back of the hand Ba eat es een 
downward from the eye—“eye rain.” The sign is as follows, as made 
by the Shoshoni, Apache, and other Indians: Hold the hand (or hands) 
atthe height of and before the shoulder, fingers pendent, palm down, 
then push it downward a short distance, as shown in Fig. 1002. That 
for heat is the same, with the difference that the hand is held above 
the head and thrust downward toward the forehead; that for to weep 
is made by holding the hand as in rain, and the gesture made from the 
eye downward over the cheek, back of the fingers nearly touching*the 
face. 
The upper design in Fig. 1003, taken from the manuscript catalogue 
of T. V. Keam, is water wrought into a meandering device, 
LS which is the conventional generic sign of the Hopitus. 
e The two forefingers are joined as in the lower design in 
the same figure. 
Tn relation to the latter, Mr. Keam says: “At the close 
of the religious festivals the participants join in a parting 
ee dance called the ‘dance of the linked finger.” They form 
sign. Moki. a double line, and crossing their arms in front of them 
they lock the forefingers of either hand with those of their neighbors, 
in both lines, which are thus interlocked together, and then dance, 
still interlocked by this emblematic grip, singing their parting song. 
The meandering designs are emblems of this friendly dance.” 
CHILD. 
The Arapaho sign for child, baby, is the forefinger in the mouth, i.e., 
a nursing child, and a natural sign of a deat-mute is the same. The 
Egyptian figurative character for the same is seen in Fig. 1004. Its 
linear form is b, same figure, and its hieratic is ¢, Champollion (¢). 
