. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Pig. Fig. kit. but not connected together, eacli havinga short line upward marking the line of. 358 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. With the gesture for drink may be compared Fig. 138, the EgyptianGoddess Nu in the sacred sycamore tree, pouring out the water of lifeto the Osirian and his soul, represented as a bird, in Araenti (Sharpe, from a funereal stele in the British Mu-seum, in Coopers Serpent Myths, p. ). The common Indian gesture for riveror stream, water, is made
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Pig. Fig. kit. but not connected together, eacli havinga short line upward marking the line of. 358 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. With the gesture for drink may be compared Fig. 138, the EgyptianGoddess Nu in the sacred sycamore tree, pouring out the water of lifeto the Osirian and his soul, represented as a bird, in Araenti (Sharpe, from a funereal stele in the British Mu-seum, in Coopers Serpent Myths, p. ). The common Indian gesture for riveror stream, water, is made by passing thehorizontal Hat hand, palm down, forwardand to the left from the right side in aserpentine manner. The Egyptian character for the sameis Fig. 139 (Champollion, Diet, p. 429).The broken line is held to represent themovement of the water on the surface ofthe stream. When made with one line less angular and more wavingit means tcater. It is interesting to compare with this the identicalcharacter in the syllabary invented by a West African ne- /wwxvgro, Mormoru Doalu Bukere, for water, ^^~, mentioned /syvx/vxby Tylor in his Early History of Mankind, p. 103. AAW\ The abbreviated Egyptian
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