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Caddo. (Compare 'Xez Percys.) 



Pass the borizontally extended iudex from right to left under the nose. 

 (Kaiowa I ; Comanche III ; Apache II ; Wichita II.) " ' Pierced noses,' 

 from former custom of wearing rings in the septum." 



€ali!!ipel. See Pend d'Oreille. 



Cheyenne. 



Draw the hand across the arm, to imitate cutting it with a knife. 

 {Marcy, Prairie Traveller, loc. cit., p. 215.) 



Draw the lower edge of the right hand across the left arm as if 

 gashing it with a knife. {Burton.) 



With the index-finger of the right hand proceed as if cutting the left 

 arm in ditterent places with a sawing motion from the wrist upward, to 

 represent the cuts or burns ou the arms of that nation. {Lorn/.) 



Bridge palm of left hand with index-finger of right. [Macgoican.) 



Draw the extended right hand, fingers joined, across the left wrist as 

 if cutting it. {Arapaho I.) 



Place the extended index at the right side of the nose, where it joins 

 the face, the tij) reaching as high as the forehead, and close to the inner 

 corner of the eye. This position makes the thumb of the right hand rest 

 upon the chin, while tiie index is perpendicular. {8ac, Fox., and Kicha- 

 poo I.) It is considered that this sign, though given to the collaborator 

 as expressed, was an error. It applies to the Sonthern Arapahos. 



As though sawing through the left forearm at its middle, with the 

 edge of the right held back outward, thumb upward. Sign made at the 

 left side of the body. (Dalwta I.) "Same sign as for a Saw. The 

 Cheyenne Indians are known to the Sioux by the name of 'The Saws.'" 



Eight-hand fingers and thumb extended and joined (as in S), outer 

 edge downward, and drawn sharply across the other fingers and fore- 

 arm as if cutting with a knife. {Dakota III.) 



Draw the extended right index or the ulnar (inner) edge of the opened 

 right hand several times across the base of the extended left index, or 

 across the left forearm at different heights from left to right. {Dal-ota 

 IV.) " Because their arms are marked with scars from cuts which they 

 make as offerings to spirits." 



Draw the extended index several times across the extended forefinger 

 from the tip toward the palm, the latter i)ointing forward and slightly 

 toward the right. From the custom of striping arms transversely with 

 colors. {Kaiowa I ; Comanche II, III ; Apache II ; Ute I ; Wichita II.) 



