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Show INQUIRY- FOOL- NO. 3i don't know." The special inquiry " Do you know?" is reported as follows: Shake the right hand in front of the face, a little to the right, the whole arm elevated so as to throw the hand even with the face and the forearm standing almost perpendicular; principal motion with hand, slight motion of forearm, palm outward. ( Deffenbaugh.) The Indian sign for " inquiry" is far superior to that of the French deaf- mutes, which is the part of the French shrug with the hunched shoulders omitted. A sign for a special form of inquiry as to the tribe to which the person addressed belongs is to pass the right hand from left to right across the face, which is answered by the appropriate tribal sign. ( Powell.) Instead of a direct question the Utes in sign- conversation use a negative form, e. g.} to ask " Where is your mother?" would be rendered " Mother- your- I- see- not." Fool, foolish. The prevailing gesture is a finger pointed to the forehead and rotated circularly-" rattle- brained." The only reported variance is where the sign for " man" is followed by shaking the fingers held downward, without reference to the head- the idea of looseness simply. French deaf- mutes shake the hands above the head after touching it with the index. No, negative. The right hand- though in the beginning of the sign held in various positions- is generally either waved before- the face ( which is the sign of our deaf- mutes for emphatic negative), as if refusing to accept the idea or statement presented, or pushed sidewise to the right from either the breast or face, as if dismissing it or setting it aside. One of the signs given for the Pah- Utes by NATSHES of oscillating the index before the face from right to left is substantially the same as one reported from. Naples by DE JORIO. This may be compared with our shaking of the head in denial; but that gesture is not so universal in the Old World as is popularly supposed, for the ancient Greeks, followed by the modern Turks and rustic Italians, threw the head back, instead of shaking it, for - No. A sign differing from all the above is by making a quick motion of the open hand from the mouth forward, palm toward mouth. ( Deffenbaugh.) The Egyptian negative linear hieroglyph is clearly the gesture of both hands, palms down, waved apart horizontally and apparently at the level of the elbow, between which |