PISL Dictionary

Group come together Come here  Come together and eat.

 

 The Stone People are the record keepers for the Mother Earth. The Stones’ mission is to hold energy. Keeper of records.

 Sign: brother - on other side - woman - old

  Hadley: "This is their true sign and refers to a former practice of clipping the hair above the right ear to show off ear ornaments . The motion has been mistaken for a circle, but it was not originally." (p.103) Seton: "..because they used to cut their hair on that side to show the ear ornaments or ear painted red ." (p.108) James Mooney seems to be the greatest expert on the etymology of this sign: "To make the sign for " Kiowa " in the sign language of the plains tribes , the right hand is held close to the right cheek, with back down, fingers touching and slightly curved, and the hand moved in a rotary motion from the wrist. According to the Kiowa this sign had its origin in an old custom of their warriors, who formerly cut the hair from the right side of the head, on a line with the base of the ear, in order better to display the ear pendants, while allowing it to grow to full length on the left side, so as to be braided and wrapped with ot...

  HAIR-PIPE = Cree A method of wearing hair pipes was employed by long-haired men, especially among the northern tribes. The hair pipes were displayed on vertical cords at the sides of the head, forward of the ears. The suspension cord might pass over the head, thus connecting the pendants at either side, or suspension cords were tied to the hair high on each side of the head. ...The facts that both the earliest and the greatest number of the few occurrences reported refer to wearing of hair-pipe hair ornaments by tribes of the Missouri-Saskatchewan region suggest that the first Plains Indians to adopt this ornament were those long-haired peoples who traded with Canadian merchants . ( John C. Ewers 1957: Hair Pipes in Plains Indian Adornment , p. 55.)