. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... ade either by the point ofthe thumb placed under the endof the index (a), or vice versa (?>),and the other fingers held at will,but separated from those men- fig. 95. The intention is to exhibit a small portion either of the thumbor index separated from the rest of the hand. The gesture is foundin Herculanean bronzes, with obviously the same signifi-cation. The signs made by some tribes of Indians for thesame conception are very similar, as is seen by Figs. 94 and 96 is simply the index ex
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... ade either by the point ofthe thumb placed under the endof the index (a), or vice versa (?>),and the other fingers held at will,but separated from those men- fig. 95. The intention is to exhibit a small portion either of the thumbor index separated from the rest of the hand. The gesture is foundin Herculanean bronzes, with obviously the same signifi-cation. The signs made by some tribes of Indians for thesame conception are very similar, as is seen by Figs. 94 and 96 is simply the index extended by itself. The otherfingers are generally bent inwards and pressed down by thethumb, as mentioned by Quintilian, but that is not neces-sary to the gesture if the forefinger is distinctly separatedfrom the rest. It is most commonly used for indication,pointing out, as it is over all the world, from which comes thename index, applied by the Eomans as also by us, to theforefinger. In different relations to the several parts ofthe body and arm positions it has many significations, ,.
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