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Old. 



Make the siyn for Woman, and then make the sign for Progres- 

 sion with a staffs {Dakota IV.) " Progression of a woman with a 

 staff." 



Young-, girl. 



Make the sign for woman, hands held in the same position, and 

 brought froni shoulder downward and outward in proportion to the 

 height of the girl. {Cheyenne I.) 



Deaf-mute natural sign. — Take hold of an iuuigiuary garment below the 

 thigh and shake it, and place the hand to the height of a girl. {Ballard.) 



Touch the right ear with the finger, because of the ear-rings girls 

 wear. {Larson.) 



Wonder. (Compare Admiration and Surprise.) 



Same as the sign for iNiirprise. Surprise and wonder seem to go 

 hand in hand, but admiration and wonder do not seem to be necessarily 

 connected. {Dakota I.) 



Place right hand over mouth, the thumb being on the right and the 

 fingers on the left of the nose; then shrink back. {Omaha I.) The 

 gesture ot placing the right hand before the mouth is seemingly invol- 

 untary with us, and appears also in the Egyptian hieroglyphs. 



Deaf-mnte natural sign. — Part the lips, raise the hand, and arch the 

 eyebrows, each action in a slow manner. {Ballard.) 



Raise apart the arms, with the hands open. {Larson.) 



W^ood. 



Point to a jjiece of wood with right index extended. {Dakota I.) 



W^ork, labor, etc. 



Thi'- right hand, with fingers extended and joined, back of the hand 

 outward, edge of fingers downward, is thrown from the level of the 

 breast, forward, upward, and then downward, on a curve, so that the 

 palm is brought upward, and then carried to the right side of the body, 

 level of the face, where the extended fingers point upright, palm out- 

 ward. {Dal'ota I.) 



As work is a general term for manual exertion, the indeflniteness of 

 this sign can be well understood. The arms and hands are extended 

 before the body, the hands in type-position (A) ; the hands are then 

 graspingly opened and shut as in seizing the plow-handles; the closed 

 hands then approximate and forcibly strike as in working at mechan- 

 ical pursuits. {Oto and Missouri I.) "The exertion required in differ- 

 ent kinds of labor." 



