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Both hands open, fingers upward, tips touching, brought downward, 

 and at same time separated to describe outline of a cone, suddenly 

 stopped. [Cheyenne I.) 



Place the tips of the fingers of both hands together in front of the 

 breast, with the wrists some distance ajiart, as in the outlines of the 

 letter A. {Dalcota V.) 



With both liands flat and extended, pointing upward, palms facing, 

 place the tips of both together, allowing the wrists to be about three or 

 four inches apart. (Shoshoni and Banal; I.) " Outline of lodge-poles 

 with covering." 



Both hands flat and extended, placing the tips of the fingers of one 

 against those of the other, leaving the palms or wrists about four inches 

 apart. {Abmrola I; Wyandot 1; Shoshoni and Banak 1.) "From its 

 exterior outline." 



Tij)! is the preferred word with the Sioux. Wigwam is not known. 

 Both hands carried to the ft-ont of the breast and idaced V-shaped, 

 with the palms looking toward each other, edge of fingers outward, 

 thumbs inward. {Dakota I.) " From the tipi." 



Cross the ends of the extended forefingers, the right one either in front 

 or behind the left, or lay the ends together ; rest the ends of the thumbs 

 together side by side, the other fingers to be nearly closed, hands neai'ly 

 upright, and the fingers resting against each other, palms inward. (Da- 

 kota IV.) '' Represents the tipi poles and the shape of the tipi." 



Fingers of both hands extended and separated ; then interlace them 

 so that the tips of one hand protrude beyond the backs of those of the 

 opposing one; hold the hands in front of the breast, leaving the wrists 

 about six inches apart. [Dakota VII ; Hidatsa I ; Ankara I.) 



The extended hands, with finger tips upward and touching, the palms 

 facing one another, and the wrists about two inches apart, are held 

 before the chest. [Mandan and Hidatsa I.) 



Place the tip of the index against the tip of the forefinger of the left 

 hand, the remaining fingers and thumbs closed, before the chests, leaving 

 the wrists about six inches apart. [Kaiowa I ; Comanche III ; Apache 

 II; Wichita \\.) " Outline of lodge. This is an abbreviated sign, and 

 care must be taken to distinguish from to meet, in which the fingers are 

 brought from their respective sides instead of upward to form gesture.'? 



Place the tips of the fingers of the flat extended hands together before 

 the breast, leaving the wrists about six inches apart. [Kaioival; Co 

 manche III ; Apache II ; Wichita II.) 



