(17) Repeated No. 8 (soldier).
(18) Touched hair (hair).
(19) Touched tent (quite white).
(20) Touched top of shoulder (commissioned officer, i.e., shoulder-straps).
(21) Thrust both hands up high (high rank).
(22) Right forefinger to forehead; waved it about in front of face and rolled head about (primarily fool, but qualified in this case by the interpreter as no sabe much).
(23) Drew hands up his thighs and body and pointed to himself (Mescalero Indian).
(24) Approximated hands before him, palms down, with thumbs and indexes widely separated, as if inclosing a circle (captured, i.e., corralled, surrounded).
(25) Placed tips of hands together, wrists apart, held them erect (T, both hands inclined), (house; in this case the agency).
(26) Threw both hands, palms back, forward and downward, moving from knuckles (metacarpo-phalangeal joint) only, several times (issuing rations).