MALLERY.] TALK—DWELLINGS. 719 
Fig. 1199, from Copway (b), represents “speak.” 
The Mexican pictograph, Fig. 1200, taken from Kingsborough (), is 
illustrative of the sign made by the Arikara and Hi- 
datsa for “tell” and “conversation.” ‘Tell me” is: a 
Place the flat right hand, palm upward, about 15 
inches in front of the right side of the face, fingers ® 
Fic. 1199.—Speech. 
pointing to the left and front; then draw the hand Ojibwa. 
inward toward and against the bottom of the chin. For ‘conversa- 
tion,” talking between two persons, both hands are held before the 
breast, pointing forward, palms up, the edges being moved several 
times toward one another. Perhaps, however, the picture in fact only 
means the common poetical image of “flying words.” 
Fic. 1200.—Talk. Mexican. 
Fig. 1201 is from Landa (b) and suggests one of the gestures for 
“talk,” and more especially that for “sing,” in which the 
extended and separated fingers are passed forward and 
slightly downward from the mouth— many voices.” : 
Although late criticisms of the bishop’s work are unfa- FE Rie an 
vorable to its authenticity, yet even if it were prepared = Maya. 
by a Maya, under his supervision, the latter would probably have given 
him some genuine native conceptions, and among them gestures would 
be likely to occur. 
Gustav Eisen (a), in describing Fig. 1202, says: 
The original, from near Santa Lucia, Guatemala, represents a sepulchral tablet, 
on which are seen the portraits of perhaps man and wife, their different headdresses, 
ete., indicating decidedly their different sexes. From the mouths of the respective 
portraits extend as usual curved figures with notes or nodes. 
DWELLINGS. 
Irving (¢) noticed fifty years ago that each tribe of Indians has a dif- 
ferent mode of shaping and arranging lodges, and especially that the 
