Fig. 325.
[Fig. 322], an illustration in the preceding address, also represents a common gesture for sit down, if made to the right of the hip, toward the locality to be occupied by the individual invited. The latter closely corresponds to an Australian gesture described by Smyth (The Aborigines of Victoria, London, 1878, Vol. II, p. 308, Fig. 260), as follows: “Minnie-minnie (wait a little). It is shaken downwards rapidly two or three times. Done more slowly towards the ground, it means ‘Sit down.’” This is reproduced in Fig. 325.
[ TSO-DI-A´-KO’S REPORT.]
The following statement was made to Dr. W. J. Hoffman by Tso-di-a´-ko (Shaved-head Boy), chief of the Wichitas in Indian Territory, while on a visit to Washington, D.C., in June 1880.
The Indian being asked whether there was any timber in his part of the Territory, replied in signs as follows:
Fig. 326.