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Cree. Kni>>ieiio. Kriititeneaiix. 



Sign for Wa^on and tlien the sign for ITIan. [Dahota I.) "This 

 indicates the Red Eiver half-breeds, with their carts, as these people are 

 so known from their habit of traveling with carts." 



Dakota. §)iou\. 



The edge of the hand passed across the throat, as in the act of cutting 

 that part. {Long ; Marcy, Army Life, loc. cit., p. 33.) 



Draw the lower edge of the hand across the throat. {Burton.) 



Draw the extended right hand across the throat. {Arapaho I.) '' Tlie 

 cnt-throats." 



Draw the forefinger of the left hand from right to left across the 

 throat. {Sac, Fo.r, and Kiclapoo 1.) "A cut throat." 



Forefinger and thumb of right hand extended (others closed) is drawn 

 from left to right across the throat as though cutting it. The Dakotas 

 have been named tiie "cutthroats" by some of the surrounding tribes 

 {Balota I.) " Cut-throats." 



Eight hand horizontal, Hat, palm downward (as in ^^), and drawn 

 across the throat as if cutting with a knife. {Dakota III.) 



Draw the opened right hand, or the right index, from left to right 

 horizontally across the throat, back of haiul upward, fingers pointing 

 toward the left. {Dakota IV.) " It is said that after a battle the Utes 

 took many Sioux prisoners and cut their throats ; hence the sign "cut- 

 throats." 



Pass the liat hand, with the palm down, from left to right across the 

 throat. (Dakota VI.) 



Draw the extended right hand, palm downward, across the throat 

 from left to right. {Kaiowa I; Comanche II, III; Shoshoni and Banak 

 I; Utel; Apache II; Wichita II.) " Uut-throats." 



Blackfoot (Sihasapa). 



Pass the right hand quickly over the right foot from the great toe 

 outward, turn the heel as if brushing something therefrom. {Dakota V.) 



Pass the widely separated tlinmb and index of the right hand over the 

 lower leg, from just below the knee nearly down to the heel. {Kaiowa 

 I; Comanche III; Apache II; Wichita II.) 



