A STORY IN SIGNS. 51 



fingers closed, with the thumb lying over the second joint of the fore- 

 finger, extend the flattened right hand, edge down, before the body, just 

 by the knuckles of the left, and draw the hand towards the body, repeating 

 the movement, — skinned, (. r >9) make the sign given in No. 25, — Bannock, 

 (60) place both hands with spread fingers upward and palms forward, thumb 

 to thumb, before the right shoulder, moving them with a tremulous motion 

 toward the left and front, — came in, (61) make three short movements 

 toward the ground in front, with the left hand, fingers loosely curved, and 

 pointing downward, — camp of the three ivhite men, (62) then with the right 

 hand open and flattened, edge down, cut towards the body as well as to the 

 right and left, — cut up the meat, (63) and make the pantomimic gesture of 

 handing it around to the visitors. 



(64) Make sign No. 35, the movement being directed to the left hand, 

 as held in No. 49, — told the white men, (65) grasping the hair on the right side 

 of the head with the left hand, and drawing the extended right hand with 

 the edge towards and across the side of the head from behind forward, — to 

 scalp; (66) close the right hand, leaving the index partly extended, and wave 

 it several times quickly from side to side a short distance before the face, 

 slightly shaking the head at the same time, — no, (67) make gesture No. 4, — 

 me, (68) repeat No. 65, — scalp, (69) and raising the forelock high with the 

 left hand, straighten the whole frame with a triumphant air, — make me a 

 greed chief. (70) Close the right hand with the index fully extended, place 

 the tip to the mouth and direct it firmly forward and downward toward the 

 ground, — stop, (71) then placing the hands, pointing upward, side by side, 

 thumbs touching, and all the fingers separated, move them from near the 

 breast outward toward the right, palms facing that direction at termination 

 of movement, — the Bannocks went to one side, (72) with the right hand 

 closed, index curved, palm downward, point toward the western horizon, 

 and at arm's length dip the finger downward, — after sunset, (73) make the 

 gesture given as No. 14, — white men, (74) pointing to the heart as in No. 4, — 

 and I, (75) conclude by making gesture No. 18 from near body toward the 

 left, four times, at the end of each movement the hands remaining in the 

 same position, thrown slightly upward, — -we four escaped on horseback. 



