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Both hands with thumbs and forefingers extended (K 1), back of hands 

 outward, are broiiglit to the sides of the head and carried downward 

 slightly in front of the sides of the body to the level of the lower ribs 

 where the hands are turned so the thumbs and forefingers point dowu' 

 ward. Pants, coat, and every other garment must be pointed to the 

 l)ositiou where worn. (Dakota I.) " The entire covering of a person." 



Make the sign for wrapping a blanket around the shoulders, and then 

 to indicate the hair on the robe, hold the left forearm horizontal and 

 directed obliquely forward and toward the right, and mo\e the right 

 hand along it from the elbow to the wrist, the back of the right hand 

 against the forearm, its fingers and thumb somewhat curved and sepa- 

 rated, pointing upwai'd (as in P). {Dakota IV. 1 



Coat. 



Separate the thumb and index-finger of each hand, and press them • 

 downward over the sides of the body. ( Wied.) I have described a sign 

 much the same for shirt. Perhaps he regarded the Indian hunting-shirt 

 as a coat, since it is used as an outside garment. The motion he de- 

 scribes depicts the pulling down of a shirt over the head, not the ])ut- 

 ting on of a coat of European fashion. Coats must have been rare 

 among the Upper Missouri Indians in 1834. He says that the thumb 

 and forefinger are separated (but being thus mentioned together he 

 evidently saw them approximated). I have described them as in con- 

 tact. Perhaps the sign is variable to this trifling degree even when 

 made by the same person, the mere indication of the pulling down of the 

 shirt being the essential point. (Matthews.) 



With the fingers held as for I>re!<iS, Tunic, but with the thumbs 

 pointing, first carry the right hand along the left arm from the wrist to 

 the shoulder and the left hand along the right arm. (Dakota IV.) " Cov- 

 ering the arms." 



The left arm is partially elevated and semi-extended in a passive man- 

 ner from the body. The right hand is then brought over the extended 

 left in type-position ( W). The back of hand more arched, and is drawn 

 up over the left arm and vice versa. The fingers of both hands are then 

 twisted over each other at points from the neck down the chest as in 

 buttoning. (Oto and Missouri I.) "Something that covers our arms 

 and is buttoned around the body." 



Deaf mute natural sif/ns. — Indicated by mo\ing the hands along the 

 arras up toward the shoulders. (Ballard.) 



Take hold of the front lappel of the coat \rith one hand to make a 

 movement of it back and front, and i>oint to it with the other, nodding 

 the head as if to indicate goods of the same kind. (Hasenstab.) 



