. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... I.) Not worth keeping. Half close the fingers of the right hand, hook the thumb over the foreand middle fingers; move the hand, back upward, a foot or so towardthe object referred to, and suddenly let the fingers fly open. Scatteredaround, therefore bad. An Arapaho sign. (Dakota IV.) Close the fingers of the right hand, resting the tips against the thumb,then throw the hand downwardand outward toward the right toarms length, and spring openthe fingers. Fig. 23G. (DakotaVI,VII,VIII; TonkaII; Panil.) T
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... I.) Not worth keeping. Half close the fingers of the right hand, hook the thumb over the foreand middle fingers; move the hand, back upward, a foot or so towardthe object referred to, and suddenly let the fingers fly open. Scatteredaround, therefore bad. An Arapaho sign. (Dakota IV.) Close the fingers of the right hand, resting the tips against the thumb,then throw the hand downwardand outward toward the right toarms length, and spring openthe fingers. Fig. 23G. (DakotaVI,VII,VIII; TonkaII; Panil.) The sign most commonly usedfor this idea is made by the handbeing closed near the breast, withthe back toward the breast, thenas the arm is suddenly extended , the hand is opened and the lingers separated from each other. (Mandanand llidatsa I.) Hands open, palms turned in; move one hand toward, and the otherfrom, the body; then viceversd. (Omaha I.) Throw the clinched right hand forward, downward, and out ward, andwhen near at arms length, suddenly snap the lingers from the thumb as. 412 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. if sprinkling water. (Wyandot 1.) To throw away coutemptously;not worth keeping. Raise hand in front of breast, fingers hooked, thumb resting againstsecond linger, palm downward (G), then with a nervous movementthrow the hand downward to the right and a little behind the body, withan expression of disgust on the face. During motion of hand the fin-gers are suddenly extended as though throwing something out of thehand, and in final position the fingers and thumb are straight and sepa-rated, palm backward (E 1). (tiahaptin I.) Away with it! Another: Same motion of arm and hand as in good. But in thefirst position fingers are closed, and as the hand moves to the right theyare thrown open, until in final position all are extended as in final forgood. (Sahaptin 1.) Extend the right hand, palm downward, and move it in a horizontalline from the body,
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