. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... ion. The right and left hands are figured above without dis-crimination, but in description or reference the right hand will beunderstood when the left is not specified. The hands as figured canalso with proper intimation be applied with changes either upward,downward, or inclined to either side, so long as the relative positionsof the fingers are retained, and when in that respect no one of the typesexactly corresponds with a sign observed, modifications may be made bypen or pencil on that one of th
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... ion. The right and left hands are figured above without dis-crimination, but in description or reference the right hand will beunderstood when the left is not specified. The hands as figured canalso with proper intimation be applied with changes either upward,downward, or inclined to either side, so long as the relative positionsof the fingers are retained, and when in that respect no one of the typesexactly corresponds with a sign observed, modifications may be made bypen or pencil on that one of the types, or a tracing of it, found mostconvenient, as indicated in the Examples, and referred to by the letterof the alphabet under the type changed, with the addition of a numeral—e. g., A 1, and if that type, i. e., A, were changed a second time bythe observer (which change would necessarily be drawn on anothersheet of types or another tracing of a type selected when there are nosheets provided), it should be referred to as A 2. 550 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Word or idea expressed by sign : To cut, with an ax. DESCRIPTION. With the right hand flattened (X changed toright instead of left), palm upward, move it down-ward to the left side repeatedly from differentelevations, ending each stroke at the same 343. CONCEPTION OR ORIGIN. From the act of felling a tree.
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