. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... ting in position so that thesignal can be seen, wave it to the left and right as often as may be nec-essary for the sign to be recognized. When made standing the personshould not move his body. (Dakota I.) Danger. See also notes on Cheyenne and Arapaho signals. Horseman at a distance, galloping, passing and repassing, and crossing each other—enemy comes. But for notice of herd of buffalo,they gallop back and forward abreast—do not cross each other. (H. Views of Louisiana. Pittsburgh,
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... ting in position so that thesignal can be seen, wave it to the left and right as often as may be nec-essary for the sign to be recognized. When made standing the personshould not move his body. (Dakota I.) Danger. See also notes on Cheyenne and Arapaho signals. Horseman at a distance, galloping, passing and repassing, and crossing each other—enemy comes. But for notice of herd of buffalo,they gallop back and forward abreast—do not cross each other. (H. Views of Louisiana. Pittsburgh, 1814, p. 250.) Riding rapidly round in a circle, Danger! Get together as quickly as possible. (Bichard Irving Dodge, lieutenant-colonel UnitedStates Army, The Plains of the Great West. New York, 1877, p. 368.) Point the right index in the direction of the danger, and then throw the arm over the front of the body diagonally, so that the handrests near the left shoulder, back outward. If the person to be notifiedof the danger should be in the rear precede the above signal with that DO 03.
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