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Both hands, backs outward, carelessly lowered to front and sides of 

 I highs, foretingers extended, tips slightly touching the thighs, then draw 

 rapidly upward along the sides of the body, and out toward the shoulders. 



{Clicyoine I.) 



Itoiliii^. 



Same as the sign for fire, heat being the idea. {Dakota I.) 



Bold. Imprudent; rash. 



Bold is included in Brave. Rashness or imprudence cannot be separa- 

 ted from Brare, as the distinction is too tine a one for the Indian's 

 conii)rehension. (Dal-ota I.) 



Book. 



I*lace the right palm upon the left palm, and then open both before 

 the face. (Burton.) 



(1) Both hands brought to a reading distance and made to represent 

 a book open,' or much as it would be while holding it in the hand and 

 reading, little fingers not touching; (2) motion made with the face and 

 eyes as though intently reading. (Cheyenne I.) 



Make with the right hand at the right side of the body the move- 

 ments of using the pen in writing, and theu carry the hand to the front 

 of the breasts, where the left hand is held horizontal with fingers 

 extended, pointing outward, palm upward (X), and close the right hand 

 with palm down, fingers extended, &c. (W), on the left, as though 

 closing an open book. First part of the sign denotes writing. (Dakota 

 I.) "From the act of closing an open book." 



Both arms are elevated and semi-extended, with the hands open and 

 parallel before the face; palms upward ; the eyes directed intently there- 

 in. The right hand is then raised and turned into a modified position 

 (B), and seemingly writes in the open palm of the left. The hands are 

 then reapproximated in position (X) before the face and approach and 

 diverge as in the opening and closing of a book's leaves. The thickness 

 is indicated by holding the right hand at the desired distance above 

 the left, open. (Oto and Missouri I.) "Something written that opens 

 and closes from which we read." 



Bone. 



Make the sign for the animal to which the bone belongs, and then 

 touch the ))articular part or place in the liody to which the bone belongs. 

 (Dakota I.) " Locating the bone." 



Born, To be. 



Place the left hand in front of the body, a little to the right, the palm 

 downward and slightly arched; pass the extended right hand down 

 ward, forward, and upward, forming a short curve underneath the left. 

 (Dakota V.) "This is based upon the curve followed by the head of 



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