Show SIGN LANGUAGE OF THE thi INDIAN make a letter A with your hands haind and the ends of your fingers that is ib a tepee or tent keep your hands in that position and bend them down so that hat your fingers point away from you a house and a very good one too because it shows how the logs logo are interlocked at the corners of the sort of houses one sees on the frontier if you want to say you saw baw something point to your eyes to say you heard something point to your you ears rears to say you slept orare or are sleepy cutup put up one hand with the palm side toward your head and bend your head as if you were going to lay it on that hand to say that you saw some one who was beautiful put your face between the thumb and fingers of one hand and draw your hand softly down from your forehead to your chin A faint smirk or smile made at the same time greatly helps the sw sign i k if the beauty you tell about was a 8 woman make maake believe take hold of a me mass of hair on the right side of your head and follow it down past the shoulder with your hand band as you see women do when they dress their hair these signs for seeing hearing sleep beauty and women are exactly the same as those used by george L fox the famous down clown when he played humpty dump r I 1 have no doubt that grimaldi the great english clown also used them for they are the natural motions for expressing those terms did you ever notice how the paws of small animae are curled in when they are dead that is the sign for died or dead hold one hand band out with the fingers bent toward thumb to make the sign but bat if you would say some one was killed hold out a with the knue knuckles lles away ram from you and move the wrist slowly dowly so as ais to force the knuckles down as it if the person was down to tell about a child hold your hand as tar far from the ground as ae its head would reach put a finger up to either side of the head to say cow to say doer deer put up all your fingers like branching horns but another adoth er WILY way to tell tel labout about a deer is to imitate his loping with one of your hands to tell of a snake wiggle one fin ger in the air as a snake aou I 1 move on the ground that sign isale is jle name for two tribes of indians the sign tor for a sioux is to make believe cut your throat with one finger for a blackfoot point to your foot for a blood wipe your fingers across your mouth for a white dan rub b your hand across your f ar to show how white our forehead tf it axe are ifor or a piegan rub one cheek the sign for water gateris wa teris is to make a scoop of your hand and put it to your mouth as you fouz tr IT yon ym were drinking at a strem stream to tell ta of a lake make that sign and spread out your hands to cover a big space to tell of a river make the water sigr and then trace the meandering course of a river with your finger but the sign for whisky is made by doub doubling ling 2 up one fist and drinking out of the top of it as if it were a bottle if you do that and make believe to stir up your brains with one finger or 01 reel a little you will describe a tipsy man nearly all signs in the lan guage axe are made with the right hand juli julian ralph in Hax harpers pers young 1 |