. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... ointing downward indicate a spiral line rising upward from thecenter of the previously formed arch. (Ojibica V.) From the dome-shaped form of the wigwam, and the smoke rising from the opening inthe roof. Both hands flat and extended, placing the tips of the fingers of oneagainst those of the other, leaving the palms or wrists about four inchesapart. (Abmroka I; Wyandot I; Shoshoni and Banak I.) From itsexterior outline. Both hands carried to the front of the breast and placed V-shaped,inverted, thus
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... ointing downward indicate a spiral line rising upward from thecenter of the previously formed arch. (Ojibica V.) From the dome-shaped form of the wigwam, and the smoke rising from the opening inthe roof. Both hands flat and extended, placing the tips of the fingers of oneagainst those of the other, leaving the palms or wrists about four inchesapart. (Abmroka I; Wyandot I; Shoshoni and Banak I.) From itsexterior outline. Both hands carried to the front of the breast and placed V-shaped,inverted, thus /\, with the palms looking toward each other, edge of fin-gers outward, thumbs inward. (Dakota I.) From the outline of thetipi. With the hands nearly upright, palms inward, cross the ends of theextended forefingers, he right one either in front or behind the left, or lay the ends together; resting the ends ofthe thumbs together side by side, the otherfingers to be nearly closed, and restingagainst each other, palms inward. Kep-resents the tipi poles and the profile ofthe tipi. (Dakota IV.).
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