. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... or his foolish decision, be-stowed on him the lengthy ornaments of the patient beast. Fig. 100 is the fingers elongated and united in a point, turned hand is raised slightly toward the face of the gesturer and shakena few times in the direction of the person conversed with. This is in-quiry, not a mere interrogative, but to express that the person addressedhas not been clearly understood, perhapsfrom the vagueness or diffusiveness of his ex-pressions. The idea appears to suggest thegather
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... or his foolish decision, be-stowed on him the lengthy ornaments of the patient beast. Fig. 100 is the fingers elongated and united in a point, turned hand is raised slightly toward the face of the gesturer and shakena few times in the direction of the person conversed with. This is in-quiry, not a mere interrogative, but to express that the person addressedhas not been clearly understood, perhapsfrom the vagueness or diffusiveness of his ex-pressions. The idea appears to suggest thegathering of his thoughts together into onedistinct expression, or to be pointed in whathe wishes to say. Crafty, deceitful, Fig. 101. The little fin-gers of both reversed hands are hooked to-gether, the others open but slightly curved,and, with the hands, moved several times to the right and left. The ges-ture is intended to represent a crab and the tortuous movements of lliecrustacean, which are likened to those of a man who cannot he tiepended on in his walk through life. lie is not
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