---- To inquire disposition.
Raise the right hand with the palm in front and gradually push it
forward and back several times; if they are not hostile it will at
once be obeyed. (Randolph B. Marcy, _The Prairie Traveler_. _New
York_, 1859, p. 214.)
---- Stand there! He is coming to you.
Right hand extended, flat, edgewise, moved downward several times.
(_Omaha_ I.)
---- Stand there! He is going toward you.
Hold the open right hand, palm to the left, with the tips of the
fingers toward the person signaled to; thrust the hand forward in
either an upward or downward curve. (_Omaha_ I; _Ponka_ I.)
---- Lie down flat where you are--she-dhu bis-pe zha[n]'-ga.
Extend the right arm in the direction of the person signaled to,
having the palm down; move downward by degrees to about the knees.
(_Omaha_ I; _Ponka_ I.)