. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Fig. malleky.] SYMMORPHIC SIGNS. 345 the Hidatsa, is shown below in this paper, see Fig. 334, page 528. Thatfor much {Cheyenne I, Comanche III), see Fig. 274, page 447, is to be cor-related with the above. The sign for to be told or tallied to, and for the reception of speech, bythe tribes gen- y^~~^^^^^^^^^ erally, is made ^^ ^irijt^Wl) by placing the x ^^^^ittfflffl^ x flat right hand, ®Ppr^ES palm upward, *•117- about fifteen inches in front of the right side of the face or breast,fingers po

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. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Fig. malleky.] SYMMORPHIC SIGNS. 345 the Hidatsa, is shown below in this paper, see Fig. 334, page 528. Thatfor much {Cheyenne I, Comanche III), see Fig. 274, page 447, is to be cor-related with the above. The sign for to be told or tallied to, and for the reception of speech, bythe tribes gen- y^~~^^^^^^^^^ erally, is made ^^ ^irijt^Wl) by placing the x ^^^^ittfflffl^ x flat right hand, ®Ppr^ES palm upward, *•117- about fifteen inches in front of the right side of the face or breast,fingers pointing to the left, then drawing the hand toward the bottomof the chin, and is illustrated in Fig. 71, page 291. The Comanche signfor aive or asking is shown in Fig. 301, page 480 {Comanche III), and ismade by bringing the hand toward the body but a short distance, and themotion repeated, the tips of the fingers indicating the outline of a circle. The tribal sign for Kaiowa, illustrated in its place among the TribalSigns, is made by holding the hand with extended and separated fingersand thumb nea

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