[Illustration:  Fig. 197.]

[Illustration:  Fig. 198.]

The final part of the gesture, representing the idea of bad, not connected with heart, is illustrated in Fig. 236 on page 411.

The above Ojibwa pictographs are taken from Schoolcraft, loc. cit.
I, plates 58, 53, 59.

Fig. 199, a bas-relief taken from Dupaix’s Monuments of New Spain, in Kingsborough, loc. cit. IV, pt. 3, p. 31, has been considered to be a royal edict or command.  The gesture to hear is plainly depicted, and the right hand is directed to the persons addressed, so the command appears to be uttered with the preface of Hear Ye!  Oyez!

[Illustration:  Fig. 199.]

[Illustration:  Fig. 200.]

The typical sign for kill or killed is:  Right hand clinched, thumb lying along finger tips, elevated to near the shoulder, strike downward and outward vaguely in the direction of the object to be killed.  The abbreviated sign is simply to clinch the right hand in the manner described and strike it down and out from the right side. (Cheyenne II.) This gesture, also appears among the Dakotas and is illustrated in Fig. 200.

[Illustration:  Fig. 201.]

Fig. 201, taken from the Dakota Calendar, illustrates this gesture.  It represents the year in which a Minneconjou chief was stabbed in the shoulder by a Gros Ventre, and afterwards named “Dead Arm” or “Killed Arm.”  At first the figure was supposed to show the permanent drawing up of the arm by anchylosis, but that would not be likely to be the result of the wound described, and with knowledge of the gesture the meaning is more clear.

[Illustration:  Fig. 202.]

Fig. 202, taken from Report upon the Reconnaissance of Northwestern Wyoming, &c., Washington, 1875, p. 207, Fig. 53, found in the Wind River Valley, Wyoming Territory, was interpreted by members of a Shoshoni and Banak delegation to Washington in 1880 as “an Indian killed another.”  The latter is very roughly delineated in the horizontal figure, but is also represented by the line under the hand of the upright figure, meaning the same individual.  At the right is the scalp taken and the two feathers showing the dead warrior’s rank.  The arm nearest the prostrate foe shows the gesture for killed.

[Illustration:  Fig. 203.]

The same gesture appears in Fig. 203, from the same authority and locality.  The scalp is here held forth, and the numeral one is designated by the stroke at the bottom.

Fig. 204, from the same locality and authority, was also interpreted by the Shoshoni and Banak.  It appears from their description that a Blackfoot had attacked the habitation of some of his own people.  The right-hand upper figure represents his horse with the lance suspended from the side.  The lower figure illustrates the log house built against a stream.  The dots are the prints of the horse’s hoofs, while the two lines running outward from the upper inclosure show that two thrusts of the lance were made over the wall of the house, thus killing the occupant and securing two bows and five arrows, as represented in the left-hand group.  The right-hand figure of that group shows the hand raised in the attitude of making the gesture for kill.