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A fiuger directed toward the breast. (Macgowan.) 



Turn the right hand about the right ear, as if putting the hair beliind 

 it. {Dodge.) 



Draw the hand, the fingers separate and partially closed, palm toward 

 the cheek, downward, as of combing the hair. (Arapnho I.) 



Right-hand fingers close together, thumb lying along basal joint of 

 forefinger, placed above the top and side of the head, bent and sud- 

 denly brought down and outward to the level and right of shoulder, 

 finger ends still bent in towai'd the latter. {Cheyenne J.) "To express 

 shortness as compared with man." 



Pass the palm once down the face and the whole body. {Ojibwa I.) 

 "The long, waving dresses [sic] or the graceful contour of the female 

 body." 



Hold the hands cup shajjcd over each breast. {Sac, Fo.r, and Kiclca- 

 2)00 1.) 



Pass the extended and flat right hand, back forward and outward, 

 ft'om the side of the crown downward toward the shoulder and forward. 

 {Ahsaroka I; Slioshoni and Baaak I.) "Represents the long hair." 



The right hand brought to the top of the head and then carried out 

 sidewise toward the right and downward as though drawing a comb 

 through the long hair of a woman's head. {Dakota I.) " Long hair." 



Eight-hand fingers extended and joined (as in T), horizontal, held on 

 the left side of the face, the fingers pointing to the rear, the thumb 

 grasping and sliding downward to represent stroking the long braided 

 hair of a squaw. {Dakota III.) 



With the right hand, back forward, fingers slightly flexed and joined, 

 thumb close to index, the little finger near the head, make a motion as 

 if brushing the hair behind the ear by moving the hand backward and 

 downward through an arc of about six inches. {Dakota IV.) "The 

 women wear the hair behind the ears and plaited." 



Pass the flat right hand, palm of extended fingers resting near the 

 right side of the crown, and do\t'nward and to the front of the collar- 

 bone. {Dakota VI.) " Represents long hair." 



The extended hands, palms backward, and pointing upward and in- 

 ward, are held each near the temple of the same side. They are then 

 swept simultaneously downward a foot or two. {Mandan and Hidatsa 

 I.) "This is to indicate the mode of dressing the hair most common 

 with women — a braid on each side." 



