. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... ] PICTOGRAPHS SPEECH VOICE. 375 doubt announces that he will do, as the line from his mouth to the headof the animal suggests. The Indian in the upper left-hand corner is toldby a squaw to take an arrow and join his companions, when he turns hishead to inform her that he has one already, which fact he demonstratesby holding up the Fig. Mexican pictograph, Fig. 194, taken from Kingsborough, II, , ]). LOO, is illustrative of the sign made l>y the Ankara and Ilidatsa for
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... ] PICTOGRAPHS SPEECH VOICE. 375 doubt announces that he will do, as the line from his mouth to the headof the animal suggests. The Indian in the upper left-hand corner is toldby a squaw to take an arrow and join his companions, when he turns hishead to inform her that he has one already, which fact he demonstratesby holding up the Fig. Mexican pictograph, Fig. 194, taken from Kingsborough, II, , ]). LOO, is illustrative of the sign made l>y the Ankara and Ilidatsa fortell and conversation. Tell me is: Place the Hat right hand, palm upward, about fifteen inches in front of the right side of the lace, lingerspointing to the left and front; then draw the hand inward toward andagainst the bottom of the chin. For conversation, talking between twopersons, both hands are held before the breast, pointing forward, palmsii]), the edges being moved several times toward one another. Perhaps,however, the picture in tact only means the common poetical image ofHying words. 376 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Fig. 195 is one of Landas characters, found in Rcl. des choses de Yuca-tan, p. 31C>, and suggests one of the gestures for talk and more especially that for sing, in which theextended and separatedfingers are passed forwardand slightly downwardfrom the mouth—manyvoices. Although thelast opin
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