. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... heAbsarokas or Crows upon the Brule-Sioux, in which the village ofthe latter was surprised and a large number of horses captured. Thatcapture is ex-hibited by thehorse-tracksmoving from thevillage, the gest-ure sign forwhich is oftenmade by a circleformed eitherby the opposedthumbs andforefingers ofboth hands orby a circular mo-tion of bothhands, palm sin-ward, towardeach other. Insomecases thereis a motion ofthe circle, from above downward, as formed. Fig. 210, from Kingsborough I, pt. 3, p. 10, rep
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... heAbsarokas or Crows upon the Brule-Sioux, in which the village ofthe latter was surprised and a large number of horses captured. Thatcapture is ex-hibited by thehorse-tracksmoving from thevillage, the gest-ure sign forwhich is oftenmade by a circleformed eitherby the opposedthumbs andforefingers ofboth hands orby a circular mo-tion of bothhands, palm sin-ward, towardeach other. Insomecases thereis a motion ofthe circle, from above downward, as formed. Fig. 210, from Kingsborough I, pt. 3, p. 10, represents Chapnltepec, f\ (N H n n Mountain of the Locust, by one enormous locust on top of ^ pOr^ a hill. This shows the mode of augmentation in the same S1 manner as is often done by an exaggerated gesture. Thecurves at the base of the mountain are intelligible only asbeing formed in the sign for many, described on pages 359Fig. 218. aud 48S< Fig. 220, taken from Pipart, loc. cit., is the Mexican pictograph for soilcultivated, i. c, tilled and planted. Fig. 221, from the same authority,. . ] CULTIVATED SOIL ROAD NO THOROUGHFARE. 383 shows the sprouts coming from the cultivated soil, and may be comparedwith the signs for grass and grow on page gesture sign for road^ path, is sometimes made by indicating twolines forward from the body, then imitating
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