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First make the sign for Color, and then touch something black. 

 {D(dota I.) "Designating a particular color." 



Rub along the back of the left hand with the palm of the lingers or 

 the right, back of left up palm of right down. Or point at a black ob- 

 ject. {Dakota IV.) 



Pass the fingers of the right hand gently over the hair on the right 

 side of the head. {Dakota V.) 



Deaf-mute natural sign.— Show the end of the nail of one finger of the 

 one hand with the forefinger of the other hand pointing at it, on account 

 of the color of the dirt under the nail. {Larson.) 



Blue. 



With two fingers of the right hand rub the back of the left. ( Wied.) 

 It is conjectured that the veins on the back of the hand are indicated. 



First make the sign for Color, and then touch something blue. 

 ( Dakota I.) " Designating color." 



Gray. 



First make the sign for Color, and then touch something of gray 

 color with the right index. {Dakota I.) " Designating color." 



Green. 



With the back of the left hand make the gesture of stroking grass 

 upon the earth. { Wied.) 



First make the sign for Color, and then touch something of green 

 color. {Dakota I.) "Designating color." 



Point at a green object and then rub the radial edge of the left hand 

 with the fingers of the right. {Dakota IV.) "Colors are usually desig- 

 nated by pointing at or rubbing some object of the color referred to." 



Deaf-mute natural sign. — Point the finger to grass. {Larson.) 



Red. 



Rub the right cheek to indicate the red color. ( Wied.) The red re- 

 fers to the paint habitually used on the checks, not to the natural skin. 

 The Indians know better than to designate between each other their 

 natural color as red, and have been known to give the designation red 

 man to the visiting Caucasian, whose blistered skin often better deserves 

 the epithet, which they only apply to themselves in converse with the 

 concpiering race that insisted upon it. The author mentions in another 

 connection that the Mandaus used red on the cheek more than on other 

 l)arts of the body on which parts other colors were generally displayed. 



