. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Toiut the extended index forward and upward before the chest, then place the spread lingers of the lefthand around the index, but at a shortdistance behind it, all pointing thesame direction. Ahead of the re-mainder. (Arikara I.) Grasp the forelock with the right hand, palm backward, and pretend to lay the hair down over the right side of the head by passing the hand in jl that direction. (Pai-TJte 1.) I The French deaf-mate sign lor or-der, command, maybe compared withseveral of the above s
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Toiut the extended index forward and upward before the chest, then place the spread lingers of the lefthand around the index, but at a shortdistance behind it, all pointing thesame direction. Ahead of the re-mainder. (Arikara I.) Grasp the forelock with the right hand, palm backward, and pretend to lay the hair down over the right side of the head by passing the hand in jl that direction. (Pai-TJte 1.) I The French deaf-mate sign lor or-der, command, maybe compared withseveral of the above signs. In it the index lip firsl touches the lower lip,then is raised above the head and brought down with violence. (Ben-Beignmentprimaire des sourds-muets; i>6.). Pia. jit. 420 SIGN LANGUAGE AMCNG NOItTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Not only iu Naples, but, according to De Jorio, in Italy generally theconception of authority in gesture is by pressing the right hand on theflank, accompanied by an erect and squared posture of the bust withthe head slightly iucliued to the right. The idea of substance is conveyed. , Warrior lower than actual, but distinguished for bravery. .-^« Place the left forefinger, ^^^^ * ^^^ pointing toward the left x/~v-;^ y ^gp) ail(t front, before the left ^O /r- QP si^6 °f the chest, then ite^^**^ %sLai^^ place the extended index Fl°-248- near (or against) the fore- finger, and, while passing the latter outward toward the left, draw theindex toward the right. (Absarokalj Arikara I; Shoshonil.) Fig. 248. Dead, Death. Throw the forefinger from the perpendicular into a horizontal posi-tion toward the earth, with the back downward. (Long.) nold the left hand flat over the face, back outward, and pass with thesimilarly
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