. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... intheir prayers by raising their handsin the same manner. They may havebeen influenced in this respect by theattitudes of their missionaries inprayer and benediction. The Apaches,who have received less civilized tui-tion, in a religious gesture correspond-ing with prayer spread their handsopposite the face,palms up and back-ward, apparently ex-pressing the desire toreceive. Fig. 200 is a copyof an Egyptian tab-let reproduced fromCoopers SerpentMyths, page 28. Apriest kneels beforethe great goddessKan
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... intheir prayers by raising their handsin the same manner. They may havebeen influenced in this respect by theattitudes of their missionaries inprayer and benediction. The Apaches,who have received less civilized tui-tion, in a religious gesture correspond-ing with prayer spread their handsopposite the face,palms up and back-ward, apparently ex-pressing the desire toreceive. Fig. 200 is a copyof an Egyptian tab-let reproduced fromCoopers SerpentMyths, page 28. Apriest kneels beforethe great goddessKanno, while suppli-cating her favor. Theconception of the au-thor is that the handsare raised by the sup-plicant to shield hisface from the glory ofthe divinity. It maybe compared withsi^ns for asking for mercy and for giving mercy to another, the former being: Extend bothforefingers, pointing upward, palms toward the breast, and bold t lie handsbefore Hie chest : (lien draw then) inward toward their respective sides, and pass them upward as high as the sides of the head i>\ either 380 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. (Kaiowal; Comanche 111; Apachell; Wichita II.) The latter, to heme mercy on another, as made by the same tribes, is: Hold both hands nearlyside by side before the chest, palms forward, forefinger only extendedand pointing upward; then move them for-ward and upward, as if passing them by thecheeks of another person from thebreast to the sides of the head. A similar gesture for supplicationappears in Fig. 207, taken from Kings-borough, toe. tit, III, pt. I, p. 24. An Indian gesture sign for smoke,and also one for fire, has been de- fig. 20c scribed above, page 344. With the former is connected the Aztec de-sign (Fig. 208) taken from Pipart, loc. cit., II, 352, and the latter appearsin Fig. 209, taken from Kiugsborough, III, pt. I, p. sign for medicine-man, shaman, is thus described: With its index-finger extended and I
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