. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... speech, the votes of each member of the council, with the degree of posi-tiveness or interest felt by each, can be ascertained. Athene in anima-ted motion turns her eyes to the right, and extends her left arm andhand to the left, with her right hand brandishing a lance in the samedirection, in which her feet show her to be ready to spring. She is urg-ing the figures on her right to follow her at once to at-tempt some dangerous enterprise. Of these the elderly man, who is calmly seated,holds his right
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... speech, the votes of each member of the council, with the degree of posi-tiveness or interest felt by each, can be ascertained. Athene in anima-ted motion turns her eyes to the right, and extends her left arm andhand to the left, with her right hand brandishing a lance in the samedirection, in which her feet show her to be ready to spring. She is urg-ing the figures on her right to follow her at once to at-tempt some dangerous enterprise. Of these the elderly man, who is calmly seated,holds his right hand flatand reversed, and suspend-ed slightly above his probably is the end-fig. 68. ing of the modern Nea- fig. 69. politan gesture, Fig. G8, which signifies hesitation, advice to pausebefore hasty action, go slowly, and commences higher with agentle wavering movement downward. This can be compared withthe sign of some of our Indians, Fig. 69, for wait! slowly! Thefemale figure at the left of the group, standing firmly and decidedly,raises her left hand directed to the goddess
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