Open the fingers of both hands, and hold the two hands before the breast, with the fingers upward and a little apart, and the palms turned toward each other, as if grasping a number of things. (Iroquois I.)
Place the hands on either side of and as high as the head, then open and close the fingers rapidly four or five times. (Wyandot I.) “Counting ‘tens’ an indefinite number of times.”
Clasp the hands effusively before the breast. (Apache III.)
Deaf-mute natural signs:
Put the fingers of the two hands together, tip to tip, and rub them with a rapid motion. (Ballard.)
Make a rapid movement of the fingers and thumbs of both hands upward and downward, and at the same time cause both lips to touch each other in rapid succession, and both eyes to be half opened. (Hasenstab.)
Move the fingers of both hands forward and backward. (Ziegler.) Add to Ziegler’s sign: slightly opening and closing the hands. (Wing.)
—— Horses.
Raise the right arm above the head, palm forward, and thrust forward forcibly on a line with the shoulder. (Omaha I.)