. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... 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
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... 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 Fig. 287. Oalispel. See Pend dOreille. Fig. 288. Cheyenne. Draw the hand across the arm, to imitate cutting it with a knife.(Marc;/ in Prairie Traveller, loc. tit., p. 215.) Draw the lower edge of the right hand across the left arm as ifgashing it with a knife. (Burton.) With the index-finger of the right hand proceed as if cutting the leftarm in different places with a sawing motion from the wrist upward, torepresent the cuts or burns on the arms of that nation. (Long.) Bridge palm of left hand with index-linger of right. (Maegowan.) Draw the extended right hand, fingers joined, across the left wrist asif cutting it. (Arapaho I.) Pass the ulnar side of the extended index repeatedly across the ex-tended linger and back ofthe left hand. Frequently,however, the index is drawnacross the wrist or forearm.(Arapaho II; Cheyenne V;Ponka II; Pani 1.) See p. 345 for remarks. The extended index, palm upward, is drawn across the forefinger ofthe left hand (palm inward), several times, l
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