. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... s left hand flatand carried well up. This position, supposed to be stationary, nowmeans to aslc, inquire, and it maybe that he inquires of the otherveteran what reasons he can pro-duce for his temporizing may be collated with themodern Neapolitan sign for ask,Fig. 70, and the common Indian sign for tell me! Fig. 71. In connec-tion with this it is also interesting to compare the Australian sign forinterrogation, Fig. 72, and also the Comanche Indian sign (oigiveme,Fig. 301,page480, infra.
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... s left hand flatand carried well up. This position, supposed to be stationary, nowmeans to aslc, inquire, and it maybe that he inquires of the otherveteran what reasons he can pro-duce for his temporizing may be collated with themodern Neapolitan sign for ask,Fig. 70, and the common Indian sign for tell me! Fig. 71. In connec-tion with this it is also interesting to compare the Australian sign forinterrogation, Fig. 72, and also the Comanche Indian sign (oigiveme,Fig. 301,page480, infra. If, however, the artist hadthe intention to represent the flat hand as in motion^X^SS? from below upward, as is probable from the COnnec_ tion, the meaning is much, greatly. He strongly dis-approves the counsel of the opposite side. Our In-diansoften express the idea of quantity, much, withthe same conception of comparative height, by an upward motion ofthe extended palm, but with them the palm is held downward. Thelast figure to the right, by the action of his w hole body, shows his lejec.
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