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Ventre Indians, Miunetarees (the Hidatsa Indians of Matthews), are 

 known to tbe Sioux as the Indians who went to the mountains to kill 

 their enemies ; hence the sign." 



Express witli the hand the sign of a big belly. {Dakota III.) 



Pass the flat right hand, back forward, from the top of the breast, down- 

 ward, outward, and inward to the pubis. {Dakota VI ; Hidatsa I ; 

 Arikam I.) " Big belly." 



Indian (generically). 



liub the back of the extended left band with the palmar surfaces of 

 the extended fingers of the right. {Comanche II.) " People of the same 

 kind; dark-skinned." 



Rub the back of the left hand with the index of the right. {Pai- Ute I.) 



Rub the back of the left hand lightly with the index of the right. 

 ( Wichita I.) 



Kaiowa. 



Make tbe signs of the Prairie and of Drinking* "Water. 



{Burton; Blackmore in Dodge's Plains of the Great AVest, xxiv. Xew 

 York, 1877.) 



Kight-hand Angers and thumb extended and joined (as in"W), placed 

 in front of right shoulder, and revolving loosely at the wrist. {Dakota 

 III.) 



Place the flat hand with extended and separated fingers before the 

 face, pointing forward and upward, the wrist near the chin ; pass it 

 upward and forward several times. {Kaioiva 1 ; Comanche III ; Apache 

 II ; Wichita II.) 



Place the right hand a short distance above the right si^e of the head, 

 fingers and thumb separated and extended; shake it rapidly from side 

 to side, giving it a slight rotary motion in doing so. {Comanche II.) 

 " Rattlebrained." 



Same sign as {Comanche II), with the exception that both hands are 

 generally used instead of the right one only. ( JJte I.) 



Kiekapoo. 



With the thumb and finger go through the motion of clipping the 

 hair over the ear ; then with the hand make a sign that the borders of 

 the leggins are wide. {Sac, Fox, and Kiekapoo I.) 



Kni»iteno, or Cree. 



Place the first and second fingers of the right hand in front of the 

 mouth. {Kutine I.) 



