MALLERY.] MOON—STARS—DAY. 697 
The crescent, as Europeans and Asiatics commonly figure the satel- 
lite, appears also in the Ojibwa picto- 
graph, the lower left-hand character in 
Fig. 1128, taken from Schoolcraft (¢), 3 
which is the same, with a sight addition, AX 
as the Egyptian figurative character. : : 
The middle character in Fig. 1128 is Fig. 1128.—Moon. 
the top of an upright post of a house of the moon gens of the Kuakiutl 
Indians taken from Boas (g). It represents the moon. 
Schooleraft (w) gives the right-hand character of the same figure for 
the moon, i. e., an obscured sun, as drawn by the Ojibwa. 
STARS. 
Fig. 1129 shows various forms of stars, taken from a petroglyph at 
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Fie. 1129.—Stars. 
Oakley Springs, Arizona. Most of them show the rays in a manner to 
suggest the points of stars common in many parts of the world. 
DAYTIME AND KIND OF DAY, 
Fig. 1130, copied from Copway (h), presents respectively the char- 
acters for sunrise, noon, and sunset. 
Fie. 1130.—Day. Ojibwa. 
An Indian gesture sign for “sunrise,” “morning,” is: Forefinger of 
right hand crooked to represent half of the sun’s disk and pointed or ex- 
tended to the left, slightly elevated. In this connection it may be noted 
that when the gesture is carefully made in open country the pointing 
would generally be to the east, and the body turned so that its left 
would be in that direction. In aroom ina city, or under circumstances 
where the points of the compass are not specially attended to, the left 
side supposes the east, and the gestures relating to sun, day, ete., are 
made with such reference. The half only of the disk represented in 
