. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Fig. 256 represents a Sahaptin sign given to thewriter by a gentleman long familiar with the north-western tribes of Indians. The conception is the same union of thelodge poles at the top, shown in several other signs, differently the tips of the spread fingers of both hands against one another pointing upward before the body, leaving a space of from four to six inches between the wrists. Fig. 257. The fingers are sometimes bent so as to more nearly represent the outline of a hou>e
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Fig. 256 represents a Sahaptin sign given to thewriter by a gentleman long familiar with the north-western tribes of Indians. The conception is the same union of thelodge poles at the top, shown in several other signs, differently the tips of the spread fingers of both hands against one another pointing upward before the body, leaving a space of from four to six inches between the wrists. Fig. 257. The fingers are sometimes bent so as to more nearly represent the outline of a hou>e and roof. Fig. 258. This, however, is accidental. (Pai-Ute I.) Represents the boughs and branches used in the construction of a Pai-Ute wik-i-up. Place the tips of the two flat hands together before the body, leavinga space of about six inches between the wrists.(TJte I.) Outline of the shape of the lodge. Left hand and righthand put together in shapeof sloping shelter (KutchinI.) Fig. 25!). Fig. 256. Fig.
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