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Designate the hour simply. See Hour. (Arapaho I.) 



Point with the hand to the east, and carry it slowly overhead to the 

 west. (Iroquois I.) 



First make the sign for How, and then the sign for Day. [Dakota 

 I.) " Kow with openness." 



Make the sign for Day, to signify the period of time distinct from 

 night. This being completed, the right hand was brought in modified 

 position (I), from the stop at right to the center of forehead alid made to 

 describe a semicircle forward from the body toward the ground. The 

 finger remains hooked and palm ontward and downward. {Oto and 

 Missoitri I.) "The day that is now before me, or present time." 



Evening. 



Forefinger of right hand crooked as in sign for ITIoi'iiiiig', and low- 

 ered toward the west, followed by the sign for jlfigiif. [Cheyenm' I.) 



Make the sign for liiiiil, and hold it toward the western horizon. 

 {Absarol-a I; Shoshoni and Baituk I.) 



The right hand and arm, the former in modified position (I), index is 

 mure opened ; hand is horizontal and palm inward; execute the sign for 

 Day. At the completion of this sign the hand is quickly everted and 

 assumes type position (]TI); index is moved to the west. In this sign, 

 as well as that for noon, mor-nin[/, day, to-morroic, yesterday, &(i., the sub- 

 ject must be with his back to the north and right hand west. {Olo and 

 Missouri I.) " When the sun goes down or at the conclusion of the day." 



Point the extended index to the western horizon, or a little lower, by 

 curving the index in that direction, the palm being below and still hori- 

 zontal with the shoulder. [Pai-Utc I.) 



Make the sign for 8iin, passing the hand slowly from the western 

 horizon to a short distance below it, holding it there a moment. 

 [Kaioiru I; Comanche III; Apache II ; Wichita l\.) 



Hour, time of day. 



Join the tips of the thumb and forefinger of the same hand the interior 

 outline approximating a circle, and let the hand pause at the proper 

 altitude east or west of the assumed meridian. {Arapaho I.) 



Is indicated by making the sign for 8un, and holding the hand in 

 that portion of the coui\se followed by the sun, to indicate the time to 

 be expressed. {AbsaroM I; Shoshoni and Banal: I.) 



Can only be approximately told by placing the sign for l^iiii in the 

 position in the heavens corresponding with the hour, dividing the time 

 between sunrise and sunset into as many equal spaces as there are 

 hours. {Dakota T.) 



