Fig. 1147.—From Copway, loc. cit., represents rain, cloudy.
Fig. 1148.—Rain. Pueblo.
The gesture sign for rain is illustrated in Fig. [1002]. The pictograph, Fig. 1148, reported as found in New Mexico, by Lieut. Simpson, in Ex. Doc. No. 64, 31st Congress, 1st session, 1850, p. 9, is said to represent Montezuma’s adjutants sounding a blast to him for rain. The small character inside the curve which represents the sky, corresponds with the gesturing hand, but may be the rain cloud appearing.
Fig. 1149.—Rain. Moki.
The Moki drawing for rain, i. e., a cloud from which the drops are falling, is given in Fig. 1149, in six variants taken from a petroglyph at Oakley Springs.
Fig. 1150.—Rain. Chinese.
Edkins (f) gives Fig. 1150 as the Chinese character for rain. It is a picture of rain falling from the clouds. He adds, p. 155: