. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... 386 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. illustration of these three signs, see respectively pages 521, 527, and different execution of the same conception of union or linking to signifyfriend is often made as follows: Hook the curved index over the curvedforefinger of the left hand, the palm of the latter pointing forward, thepalm of the right hand being turned toward the face ; remaining fingersand thumbs being closed. (Dakota VIII.) Fig. 232. Wieds sign for medicine is Stir with the r
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... 386 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. illustration of these three signs, see respectively pages 521, 527, and different execution of the same conception of union or linking to signifyfriend is often made as follows: Hook the curved index over the curvedforefinger of the left hand, the palm of the latter pointing forward, thepalm of the right hand being turned toward the face ; remaining fingersand thumbs being closed. (Dakota VIII.) Fig. 232. Wieds sign for medicine is Stir with the righthand into the left, and afterward blow into thelatter. All persons familiar with the Indianswill understand that the term medicine, fool-ishly enough adopted by both French and Englishto express the aboriginal magic arts, has no thera-peutic significance. Very few even pretendedfig. 232. remedies were administered to the natives and probably never by the professional shaman, who worked by incantation,often pulverizing and mixing the substances mystically used, to preventtheir detection
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