. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... aveler. New York, 1859,p. 214.) Stand there! He is coming to you. Right hand extended, flat, edgewise, moved downward several times.(Omaha I.) Stand there! He is going toward you. Hold the open right hand, palm to the left, with the tips of the fingerstoward the person signaled to; thrust the hand forward in either anupward or downward curve. (Omaha I; Ponka I.) Lie down flat where you are—she-dhu bis-pe zha-ga. Extend the right arm in the direction of the person signaled to, havingthe palm down; mov
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... aveler. New York, 1859,p. 214.) Stand there! He is coming to you. Right hand extended, flat, edgewise, moved downward several times.(Omaha I.) Stand there! He is going toward you. Hold the open right hand, palm to the left, with the tips of the fingerstoward the person signaled to; thrust the hand forward in either anupward or downward curve. (Omaha I; Ponka I.) Lie down flat where you are—she-dhu bis-pe zha-ga. Extend the right arm in the direction of the person signaled to, havingthe palm down; move downward by degrees to about the knees. (OmahaI; Ponka I.) Peace-, Friendship. Hold up palm of hand.—Observed as made by an Indian of the Kan-sas tribe in 1833. (John T. Irving, Indian Sketches. Philadelphia, 1835,vol. ii, p. 253.) Elevate the extended hands at arms length above and on either sideof the head. Observed by Dr. W. J. Hoffman, as made in NorthernArizona in 1871 by the Apaches, Mojaves, Hualpais, and arms—corresponding with hands up of road-agents. Fig. Fig. 335.—A signal l peace,
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