. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... e manner of wearing thetuft of hair backward from the forehead. According to this informant,the Sho shoni use the same sign for Banak as for themselves. Blaokfeet. (This title refers to the Algonkian Blackfeet, properlycalled Satsika. For the Dakota Blackfeet, or Sihasapa, see underhead of Dakota.) The finger and thumb encircle the ankle. {Long.) Pass the right hand, bent spoon-fashion, from the heel to the little toeof the right foot. {Burton.) malleby.] ATSINA BANAK BLACKFEET. 463 The palmar surfac
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... e manner of wearing thetuft of hair backward from the forehead. According to this informant,the Sho shoni use the same sign for Banak as for themselves. Blaokfeet. (This title refers to the Algonkian Blackfeet, properlycalled Satsika. For the Dakota Blackfeet, or Sihasapa, see underhead of Dakota.) The finger and thumb encircle the ankle. {Long.) Pass the right hand, bent spoon-fashion, from the heel to the little toeof the right foot. {Burton.) malleby.] ATSINA BANAK BLACKFEET. 463 The palmar surfaces of the extended fore aud second fingers of theright hand (others closed) are rubbed along the leg just above the would not seem to be clear, but these Indians do not make anysign indicating black in connection with the above. The sign docs not,however, interfere with any other sign as made by the Sioux. (Creel;Dakota I.) Black feet. Pass the flat hand over the outer edge of the right foot from the heelto beyond the toe, as if brushing off dust. (Dakota V, VII, VIII.)Fig. Fig. 280. Touch the right foot with the right hand. (Kutine I.) Close the right hand, thumb resting over the second joint of the fore-finger, palm toward the face, and rotate over the cheek, though ;in inchor two from it. (ShosJioni and Banahl.) From manner of paintingthe cheeks. Fig. 287. 464 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Caddo. Pass the horizontally extended index from right to left under the II; Cheyenne Y; Kaiowa I; Comanche I, II, 111; Apache II;Wichita I, II.) Pierced noses,from former custom of perforating theseptum for the reception of rings. Fig. 288. This sign is also used forthe Sahaptin. For some remarks see page 345.
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