View sign 'house'

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Description

(meaning: corners of log houses)

Bring the hands in front of body, and interlock the fingers near tips, fingers at nearly right angles and horizontal.

Notes

Tomkins mentions Cheyennes indicate shape of gable roof with both hands (position 5) pointing up.

Clark notes that some tribes do not link fingers, but bring hands in same position, as though about to do so, and then throw or move the hands by wrist action to right and left a few inches, bringing wrists near together. This gesture indicates the shape of a house.