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Description

Make the sign for TIPI; then bring both hands about fourteen inches in front of center of body, hands opposite, and palms towards each other, fingers and thumbs partially curved, fingers separated slightly, forearms nearly horizontal, wrists a little higher than elbows, about two inches space between tips of thumbs and tips of fingers of right and left hand, thumbs and index fingers forming an incomplete horizontal circle; lower the hands simultaneously and briskly some inches, mostly by elbow action.


References: forest, house, many, sleep, small, tipi
Synonyms: bivouac, village

Notes

Tomkins says to only make the incomplete circle with the thumbs and indexes and that the distance between them is about one inch.

Clark notes to indicate the size of the camp, give the number of lodges, or make the sign for TIPIS; sign for SMALL, if there are few lodges, and MANY if a large camp. If an unusually large village, add sign for FOREST; the idea being that the tips of the tipi poles look like a forest.

To express the idea of going into camp, the sign for TIPI in the first instance is not made, and sometimes only the sign for SLEEP is made. The description I have here given refers to tipis, lodges, tents, or people in a camp or bivouac; and the same sign is used to denote a village or city of white people, the sign for HOUSE being made instead of tipi.