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Hold both flat hands edgewise iu front of the body, thumbs up, push 

 forward with sudden interruptions, at each movement drawing back the 

 fingers and throwing them forward at every rest. [Kaiowa I ; Coman- 

 che HI; A2)achell; Wichita II.) 



Make a sort of mild grasping motion with both hands in several di- 

 rections downward. {Apache III.) "Suggestive of industrial activity, 

 and supplemented by pantomime of sewing or chopping, if not promptly 

 undeistood." 



^Vrap, To. 



The left hand is held in front of the body, hand closed, horizontal, 

 back upward, and the right hand, with fingers in position as though 

 grasping something, is rotated around the stationary left. {Dal-ota I.) 

 "From the act of wrapping." 



Writiii§r. 



The act of writing is imitated by the finger in the palm of the opposite 

 hand. (Long.) 



(1) Left hand held up as if a piece of paper; (2) motion made with 

 right hand as though writing. (Cheyenne I.) 



The first part of the sign for Book. (Dakota I.) 



Year. 



Give the sign of Rain or fiiiio^v. (Burton.) 



Sign for Cold, and then sign for Counting' — one. (Dakota I.) 

 "One winter." 



Deaf-mute natural sign. — Point to shirt bosom and lower the extended 

 fingers to signify snmc, then raise the hand to denote the height or depth 

 of the snow, and then depress the hands to signify gone. (Ballard.) 



Yes. Affirmation. It is so. (Compare Good and Trutii.) 



The motion is somewhat like Triitii, but the finger is held rather more 

 upright, and is passed nearly straight forward from opposite the breast, 

 and when at the end of its course it seems gently to strike something, 

 though with a rather slow and not suddenly accelerated motion. (Long.) 



Wave the hands straight forward from the face. (Burton.) This 

 may be compared with the forward nod common over most of the world 

 for assent, but that gesture is not universal, as the ^ew Zealanders 

 elevate the head and chin, and the Turks shake the head somewhat like 

 our negative. Rev. E. B. B. Barnum, Harpoot, Turkey, in a contribu- 

 tion of signs received after the foregoing had been printed, denies the 

 latter statement, but gives Truth as " gently bo^viug, with head in- 

 clined to the right." 



