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Raise the right haud and fingerss, gently tap the forehead over the 

 right eye, and pass backward alongside of head with three or four taps 

 of fingers on head. {OJibwa IV.) " Probably intimating a level head." 



Touch the forehead with the right index and then make the sign for 

 Big directly in front of it. (Dakota I.) " Big brain." 



Touch the side of the head with the flat right hand, then elevate the 

 hand toward the sky. ( Wyandot I.) " Superior in intelligence." 



Tap the forehead with the index, and make the sign for Speak. 

 {A2)ache 1.) 



H^i^li; fleinire oi'poji>!i>e<!>t!>ioii. 



Hook the forefinger over the nose. (Arapaho I.) 



Eight hand, with thumb and forefinger extended, is brought upward 

 in front of the body, with the back of the hand outward, thumb and 

 forefinger pointing toward the left, to the level of the breast, when the 

 haud is quickly thrown upward, outward, and then slightly downward, 

 i. e,, on a curve, so that the hand is horizontal with the palm upward. 

 {Dakota I.) "I like it, wish it." 



"Wolf. (Compare Dog:.) 



Same sign as fur Dog;. {Oto I.) 



Place the right hand, fingers joined and extended, above the mouth, 

 pointing downward and forward. ( Ute I.) " Long nose." 



li¥oiiiaii. (Compare Female.) 



The finger and thumb of the right hand, [)artly open, and placed as if 

 laying hold of the breast. [Dunbar.) 



The hands are passed from the top down each side of the head, indi- 

 cating the parting of the hair on the top, and its flowing down each side. 

 [Long.) 



Pass the palm of the extended hand downward over the hair on the 

 side of the head, or downward over the cheeks. ( Wied.) Same as my 

 description, but less precise. (Matthews.) The arms were flexed and 

 the hands, fist-like, held at either side in the position of the female 

 mammary glands, then sweeps semicircularly downward. There is no 

 appreciable similarity in this sign and Wied's, the conception and execu- 

 tion of which are wholly dittereut. [Boteler.) " One with prominent 

 mammse, who can bring forth young." 



Pass the hand down both sides of the head, as if smoothing or strok- 

 ing the long hair. {Burton.) 



