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hand from left to right about eight inches, raising and lowering it 

 several times while so doing, as if quickly pointing at different objects. 

 {Dalofa IX.) 



\\lii!«key. 



Make the sign for Bad and Drink, for "bad water." (Burton.) 



Sign for Tl^ater and Fire. (Cheyenne I.) 



Another: Sign for BriiiJSf, and right-hand fingers outspread, tips 

 pointing upward, shaken before forehead with wave of head to indicate 

 unsteadiness. (Cheyenne I.) 



First make the sign for Drinking', and then the sign for Fool. 

 (Dal'ota L) "Very expressive." 



The right arm is flexed and elevated, the right hand approaches the 

 chest in type-position (O 1), modified by being held edge up. The hand 

 thus seemingly grasping a bottle is passed semicircularly upward to- 

 ward, then to the mouth and from it, the head receding. The hand 

 then falls to the side, and the head inclining to either side is swayed to 

 and tro, indicative of lost ecpiilibrium. (Oto and Missouril.) "Some- 

 thing drunk that stupefies the senses." 



Deaf-mute natural sign. — Raise the hand, lingers iJlaced together, to- 

 ward the mouth, and shake the body to and fro sidewise. (Larson.) 



White. See Color. 



Wiiite Ulan; Anieriean. 



Place the open index-finger and thumb of the right hand toward the 

 face, then pass it to the right in front of the forehead to indicate the 

 hat. (Wied.) Still used to some extent. (Matthews.) There is a plain 

 and evident similarity in both execution and conception in the {Oto I) 

 sign and WiedJs. (Boteler.) 



The sign for Trade also denotes the Americans, and, indeed, any 

 white men, who are generally called by the Indians west of the Rocky 

 Mountains " Sli wop," from our "swap" or "swop." (Burton.) This is 

 a legacy from the traders who were the first representatives of what 

 used to be called the Caucasian race, met by the Indians. 



A finger passed across the forehead. (Macgoican.) 



Indicate upon the forehead with the hand the supposed line of contact 

 of a hat. (Arapaho I.) "Literally, 'the hat- wearers.' " 



Hold one hand horizontally over the forehead. (Sac, Fox and Kicka- 

 poo I.) 



