. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... kara. (Corruptly abbreviated Bee.) Imitate the manner of shelling corn, holding the left hand stationary,the shelling being done with the right. (Creel.) Fig. 284. With the right hand closed, curve the thumb and index, join theirtips so as to form a circle, and place to the lobe of the ear. (AbsarokaI; Hidatsal.) Big ear-rings. Fig. 285. Botli hands, fists, (B, except thumbs) in front of body, backs lookingtoward the sides of the body, thumbs obliquely upward, left hand sta-tionary, the backs of the
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... kara. (Corruptly abbreviated Bee.) Imitate the manner of shelling corn, holding the left hand stationary,the shelling being done with the right. (Creel.) Fig. 284. With the right hand closed, curve the thumb and index, join theirtips so as to form a circle, and place to the lobe of the ear. (AbsarokaI; Hidatsal.) Big ear-rings. Fig. 285. Botli hands, fists, (B, except thumbs) in front of body, backs lookingtoward the sides of the body, thumbs obliquely upward, left hand sta-tionary, the backs of the fingers of the two hands touching, carry therigid thumb forward and backward at the inner side of the left thumband without moving the hand from the left, in imitation of the act ofshelling corn. (Dakota I, VII, VIII.) Collect the fingers and thumb of the right hand nearly to a point, andmake a tattooing or dotting motion toward the up-per portion of the cheek. This is theold sign, and was used by them pre-vious to the adoption of the more mod-ern one representing corn-eaters.(AriJcara I.).
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