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keeiiing the tips of the loreliugers together. Facial expressions add 

 greatly to the intensity of all signs. (Comanche I.) " Wrestling." 



Fiiiittilied. See Done. 



Fire, burning-. 



The two hands brought near the breast, touching or ai)proaching each 

 other, and half shut ; then moved outward moderately quick, the fingers 

 being extended and the hands a little seiJarated at the same time, as if 

 to imitate the appearance of flame. (Dunbar.) 



The act of striking fire with the flint and steel is represented; after 

 whicli the ascent of the smoke is indicated by closing the fingers and 

 thumb of the right hand, holding them in a vertical i)Osition, with the 

 hand as low as convenient; the hand is then gradually elevated, and 

 the fingers and tliumb a little expanded to show the ascent and expan- 

 sion of the volume of smoke. (Long.) 



Hold the fingers of the right hand slightly opened and upward and 

 elevate tlie luind several times. ( Wied.) The body is bent somewhat 

 forward — tiie right index, middle fingei", and thumb are theii approxi- 

 mated at their points and hand is held, droopingly, near the ground. 

 The hand thus cup shajied is made to open and close successively and 

 rise by jerks, like the jumping and cracking of a flame. Although the 

 positiou of the hand is reversed in Wied''s sign, there is a marked simi- 

 larity of execution and conception in the two. (Boteler.) The sign 

 may portray the rising forked tongues of the flame. 



Blow it and warm tlie hands before it. To express the boiling «f a 

 kettle, the sign of Fire is made low down and an imaginary pot is 

 eaten from. (Burton.) 



Scratching the breast. (Macgoiran.) 



Raise and lower the hand alternately, palm up, the fingers extended 

 upward and moving in imitation of tongues of flame. (Arapaho I.) 



Kight forearm in vertical position, and hand slowly elevated, the 

 fingers and thumb pointing upward, being meanwhile oi)ened and closed 

 two or three times. (Cheyenne I.) 



Kight hand (P) extended in front to the ground, fingers pointing 

 upward, raise the hand slowly, with a tremulous motion, not more than a 

 foot from the ground to denote a small fire, such as Indians build in 

 their lodges. For a larger fire raise the hand higher with the tremidous 

 motion. Of course the body will have to be inclined forward in making 

 this sign. (Dakota I.) " From the flame and smoke of a fire." 



