4s 



Tlie sif^ii is comiileted by tuniins' tliein over towards tlie side as iu 

 regularly bending or l)reakiug a stick. Sign ends with palms up. ( Oto 

 I.) ''Souietliing torn apart." 



Both hands closed, palms <lown, thumbs touching, then throw both 

 downward and outward, toward their resi)ective sides as if breaking a 

 .stick. If this gesture is accompanied by a movement of the bo<ly for- 

 ward, and t'Hcial accompaniment of exertion, it represents greater 

 destruction by breaking or the increased requirement of strength to 

 break the object referred to. (Ute I; Apache I.) 



Seize an imaginary object, hold it in two fists (A palm down), turn 

 fists outward and palms up (broken). (Apache III.) 



Deaf-mute natural signs. — Clinch the hands and turn them as in the 

 act of breaking a stick. (Ballard.) 



Use the shut hands as if to break a stick. (Hasenstab.) 



Nod the head slowly with the upper teeth rested on the lower lip 

 and the eyes opened widely to express astonishment, and, at the same 

 time, use the shut hand with the forefinger up as if to give a warning, 

 and then use the shut hands as if to break somethiug. (Hasenstab.) 



Place the fists together and suddenly raise them ai)art, forming an 

 angle (either right or obtuse.) (Larson.) 



To use both shut hands as if to break a stick. (Zeigler.) 



Broken. 



Twist off left forefinger with right forefinger and thumb. (Apache 

 III. 



Breech-cloth. 



Pass the flat hand I'rom between the legs upward toward the belly. 

 ( Wiefl.) This sign is still iu use among these Indians. (Matthews.) 

 Metaphorically speaking there is identity with Wied's sign and mine. 

 (Oto and Missouri I.) Iu the latter, tlie sign is given for the thing sig- 

 nified. By the Priuce of Wied the conception is the article itself. By 

 the Oto, that which invariably accompanies and supports it. (Boteler.) 



Draw the opened right hand, palm upward, between the legs from 

 behind forward. (Dakota TV.) 



Both arms were flexed and somewhat raised at the sides ; the bauds, 

 then in position (K), inverted, are brought to the prominences of the 

 hips. The liands are then brought around to the pubis iu an approach- 

 ing line and there twisted over each other, as in tying a knot. The 

 movement in this .sign represents the tying of the cord that passes 

 around over the hips to support the breech-cloth. (Oto and Missouri I.) 

 "Tiiat which is tied on with a cord at the hips." 



