SPOTTED TAIL, A DAKOTA CHIEF.

With the index only of the right hand extended, indicate a line of

curve from the sacrum (or from the right buttock) downward, backward,

and outward toward the right; then extend the left forefinger,

pointing forward from the left side, and with the extended index draw

imaginary lines transversely across the left forefinger. (_Absaroka_

I; _Shoshoni_ I; _Dakota_ VI, VII; _Arikara_ I.) "Tail, and spotted."

Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 · 第 168 / 253 题