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Show 32 LIE- TRUTH- OFFSPBING. and the Maya negative particle " ma" given by LANDA there is a strong coincidence. IAe, falsehood, is almost universall} 7 expressed by some figurative variation on the generic theme of a forked or double tongue-" two different stories"- in which the first two fingers on the right hand separate from the mouth. One reported sign precedes the latter motion by the right hand touching the breast over the heart. ( Hoffman.) Another instance given, however, is when the index is extended from the two corners of the mouth successively. ( Ealy.) Still another is by passing the hand from right to left close by and across the mouth, with the first two fingers of the hand opened, thumb and other fingers closed. ( Bodge; Ndtshes.) A further variant employed by the Utes is made by closing the right hand and placing the tips of the first two fingers upon the ball of the extended thumb, and snapping them forward straight and separated while passing the hand from the mouth forward and to the left. In the same tribe the index is more commonly moved, held straight upward and forward, alternately toward the left and right front. " Talk two ways." Truth, true, is naturally contradistinguished by the use of a single finger, the index, pointing straight from the mouth forward and sometimes upward-" One tongue; speech straight to the front; no talk behind a man." Sometimes, however, the breast is the initial point, as in the French deaf- mute sign for " sincere." The deaf- mutes also gesture " truth" by moving one finger straight from the lips-" straight- forward speaking"- but distinguish " lie" by moving the finger to one side-" sideways speaking." Offspring or descendant, child in filial relation- not simply as young humanity- is generally denoted by a slightly varied dumb show of issuance from the loins, the line traced sometimes showing a close diagnosis of parturition. This is particularly noticeable in the following description: Place the left hand in front of the body, a little to the right, the palm downward and slightly arched; pass the extended right hand downward, forward, and upward, forming a short curve underneath the left. ( Hoffman.) The sign, with additions, means " father," " mother," " grandparent," but its expurgated form among the French deaf- mutes means " parentage " gener-ically, for which term there is a special sign reported from our Indians by |