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Same as the sigu for Drinking' oi- for River, which of course 

 iuchidcs water. [Dakota 1.) 



Place the right hand upright six or eight inches in front of the mouth, 

 back outward, index and tluimb crooked, and their ends about an inch 

 apart, the other Angers nearly closed ; move it toward the mouth, and 

 then downward nearly to the top of the breastbone, at the same time 

 turn the hand over toward the mouth until the little finger is upper- 

 most. [Dakota lY.) '' Carrying a cup to the mouth and emptying it." 



Collect the fingers and thumb of the right hand to a jjoint, and bring 

 them to the mouth, palm up. [Wyandot I.) 



Place the liat right hand before the face, pointing upward and forward, 

 the back forward with the wrist as high as the nose ; then draw it down- 

 ward and inward toward the chin. [Kaiowal; Comanche 111; Apavlie 

 II; Wichita II.) " From the former custom of drinking with the bowl- 

 shaped hand." 



Pass the extended flat right hand downward before the face, fingers 

 to the left and back forward. [Shoxhoni and Banakl.) "From the 

 manner in which it is used in washing the face." 



Deaf-mute natural si(jH. — Raise and depress the hand in imitation of 

 a man handling a pump, and move the hand to the mouth and raise the 

 head in imitation of the act of drinking. [Ballard.) 



A drink of. 



Make sigu for Bring ; fingers still crooked as in sign for ]TIany, 



brought over forward from the mouth with sudden downward curve. 

 [Chei/enne I.) 



Spring of. 



(1) Hold the hands flown, thumbs and indices widely separated, as if 

 inclosing a round object twenty inches across ; (2) trace a serpentine line 

 from it with finger tip. [Apache III.) "(1) A spring; (2) a rivulet." 



Watermelon!!!, 8qiia!i>lie!!i, and iTIii!!iknielon§. 



Pantomimically expressed by illustrating their form on the ground, 

 and according to size for specific designation. ( Ute I.) 



Weak, ^l^eakness. 



Left hand is held in front of the body about a foot, hand horizontal, 

 fingers extended and pointing toward the right, back of hand outward 

 (S I), and the right hand (S 1) is passed from the right breast forward 

 by the left, with the fingers pointing straight outward, back of hand 

 towai'd the right, and then the right hand carried directly out toward 

 the right side of the body. [Dakota I.) " 'So ; no go ; cannot go ; am 

 weak, sickly." 

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