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Baise the rijjht liaiul several times from near the ground, its back 

 forward, tiugers pointing upward and a little bent and separated. 

 {Dakota IV.) ''Flames shooting upward." 



The hand is brouglit near the ground in hand type (iw), the body at 

 the same time inclined forward. The fingers and thumb are then suc- 

 cessively opened and closed as the hand is elevated by jerks, as it were. 

 {Oto I.) "Jumping and crackling of a flame." 



Eight hand, palm towai-d and a short distance before the waist, lin- 

 gers extended upward and separated, moved upward about eight or ten 

 inches several times. {Ute I.) "Tongues of fire, flame." 



Deaf-mute natural sk/iis. — Blow through the mouth, and move the hand 

 up and down rapidly. (Ballard,) 



Oi>eii both hands tVeely, move them up fast and down slowly sevei'al 

 times, and at the same time keep the mouth, half open, blowing. [Husen- 

 stab.) 



Move the lingers of both hands together upward with a little blow 

 sent from the mouth. {Larson.) 



To light a. 



Hold the left hand before the body, palm down and arched, collect 

 the fingers and thumb of the right hand to a point and pass them 

 quickly along the thumb of the left from the basal joint toward the tip; 

 then place the right hand quickly under tlie arched left for a moment ; 

 then suddenly closing both hands, side by side, move them upward a 

 few inches, quickly extending the fingers and thumbs in so doing; palms 

 forward. ( Vic I.) " Striking a match, kindling the brush, and smoke." 



Hold both hands before the body, straight, fingers curved sutticient 

 for the tips to Ije directed toward their respective hands ; strike from 

 above downward with the right, so that the finger-nails strike those of 

 the left in passing. {Apache I.) "From the old method of obtaining 

 fire with flint." 



To make a. 



First make the sign for Fire ; then hold the arched left hand close 

 to the ground with the palm downward, placing the right, fingers and 

 thumb directed to a point, underneath the left. {Apachel.) "Kindling 

 grass or other combustibles." 



FiNh. 



Hold the upper edge of the hand horizontally, and agitate it in the 

 manner of a fan but more rapidly, in imitation of the motion of the tail 

 of the fish. {Long.) 



