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In Jordan and three other Arab countries, to flick the right thumbnail against the front teeth means the gesturer has no money or only a little.

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The following is the Ponka sentence as given by the gesturer in connection with the several gestures as made: —— Nan'-ba jan ʞi a-g¢e' ta min̄'-ke ʇi wi'-wi-a tĕ'-ʇa.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

The hands making the motions can be held high or low, as the gesturer is standing or sitting, or the person addressed is distant or near by.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

An instance is recorded of the addition of significance to gesture when it is employed by the gesturer, himself silent, to accompany words used by another.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

The same gesturer when claiming for himself the character of goodness made the following: Rapidly pat the breast with the flat right hand.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick