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Place the tips or ends of tbe extended fingers and thumb gently over 

 the heart, leaning the head slightly toward the left, accompanied by a 

 drooping or closing of the eyelids. ( Ute I.) 



Another: Collect the fingers and thumb of the right (or left) hand to 

 a i)oint, and place the tips alternately to the right and left sides of the 

 chest, accompanied by a simultaneous dropping of the head, with the 

 eyes partially or entirely closed. (Ute I.) "Location of pain." 



Deaf-mute natural signs. — Place the hand upon the breast and i)ro- 

 trude the tongue. (Ballard.) 



Place your palm on the forehead and shudder. (Cross.) 



Place the open hand on the forehead, and then move the head down, 

 with the mouth half opened. (Haseiistab.) 



Put forth a part of the tongue out of the mouth and at the same time 

 raise the hand to the breast. (Larson.) 



Place the hand on the breast, at the same time open the mouth as 

 if to vomit. (Zeigler.) 



Very. 



Both hands flat, extended, and fingers joined, place against the cheek 

 bones and withdraw slowly. ( Wyandot I.) 



Sign laii^iiag:e. 



Tap the back of one hand with the palmar surface of the fingers of 

 the other, alternately and repeatedly, then close both hands, leaving the 

 forefingers and thumbs fully extended and separated ; place them about 

 four inches apart, palms facing, and rotate them in short vertical cir- 

 cles, in such a manner that when the right hand occupies the upper 

 portion of its circle the left will be below. (Kaioioa II ; Comanche III ; 

 Apache II ; ^Mchita II.) " Hands and conversation." 



Silence. 



Lay the extended index, pointing upward, over the mouth so that 

 the tip extends as far as the uose, or alongside the nose. (Shoshoni and 

 Banal' I; Ute I.) 



Sing, to. 



Eight-hand fingers and thumb partially unclosed, placed in front of 

 the mouth, shot upward, and slightly shaken. (Cheyenne I.) 



Ball of the right hand resting on the chin, fingers extended obliquely 

 upward aud toward the left, as though catching the words thrown out 

 of the mouth. (Dakota I.) " Catching the words." 



