Sign Language of the Red Savages

As the many tribes do not share a common language, they have found it advantageous to develop a sign language, also known as hand talk, to aid their communication. This sign language is common to nearly all of the tribes of the Barrens. It is an important key to the capacity of the tribes to unite and protect their territories against outside invaders. But, it is a very limited language though in most situations it is adequate. It is easily learned as many of the signs seem appropriate and natural. The origin of some signs though is obscure. In only four or five days, you could learn most of the signs. Like the spoken languages, the adjectives usually, though not always, follow the noun.
Here are the signs described in Savages of Gor and Blood Brothers of Gor.
Signs
1. Man: Place your right hand in front of your chest with the index finger pointing up. Then raise it to the front of your face.
2. Red Savage: Rub the back of your left hand from the wrist to the knuckle with your right index finger.
3. Friend: Place your two index fingers together and raise them upward beside your face.
4. Friend: Clasp your left hand with your right and shake it.
5. Wild sleen or the Sleen tribe: Place the middle fingers of the right hand on your right thumb, extending the index and little finger.
6. Domestic sleen: Spread the index finger and second finger of the right hand and draw them from left to right, in front of your body.
7. White man: Draw your right index finger across your forehead, from left to right.
8. Woman: With the fingers of both hands slightly curved, make downward motions from the top of your head to your shoulders in a combing motion.
9. White woman: Trace a line with your right index finger across your forehead, from left to right, and then open the hand and move it downward toward the shoulder in the combing motion.
10. Bondage: Lower your head, looking at your left wrist which you then grab firmly in your right hand.
11. Female slave or a White woman (most common way to refer to such): Make the combing motion and then lower your head, looking at your left wrist which you then grab firmly in your right hand.
12. Another sign for Slave or White woman: Make the sign for a woman, then a downward striking motion as though holding a switch.
13. Another sign for Slave or White woman, when the context is clear: Spread the first and second fingers of your right hand and then lay them over the index finger of your left hand, like the ankles bound on a leg stretcher.
14. Female Red Savage slave: Use the sign for a woman, followed by the sign for a red savage, and then followed by the bondage sign.
15. Kaiila: Hold your left hand with the palm in before your chest, and then place your index and second finger of your right hand astride the edge of the left hand.
16. Ride: Make the sign for Kaiila but both your hands rotate in tiny circles.
17. Knife: Place your left fist in front of your mouth and slice between it and your face with the edge of your opened right hand.
18. Kaiila tribe: Draw an imaginary line across your throat with your right index finger.
19. Soldiers: Hold your fists in front of your chest, the thumbs almost touching, and then spread your fingers out horizontally.
20. Cavalry: Combine the sign for soldiers with the sign for riding.
21. Wagons: Hold both your fists close to your chest with the backs of your hands down and the index fingers curved. Then make a forward circular motion.
22. Grass: Hold your hands near the ground with your fingers curved upward and slightly apart. Then wing the hands out in a small, upward curve.
23. Day or light: Fold your arms, the right arm resting on top of the left. Then raise both hands until your fingers point skyward. Each time you repeat this gesture means another day.
24. Many: Raise your hands in front of your body, the fingers slightly curved, and sweep your hands together in a looping curve.
25. Fleer tribe: Smote your hands slowly together three times.
26. Yellow Knives tribe: Make the sign for knife followed by the sign for fleer though the sign for knife will usually suffice.
27. Kailiauk: Hold up three fingers like their horns.
28. Fast, quick or hurry: Hold your hands in front of your body with the palms facing one another. With your left hand a bit ahead of the right, quickly brush the right palm past the left palm.
29. Kill, hit or strike: Hold your left hand before your body, palm out, with the index and second fingers spread in a "V." Hold your right hand at your right shoulder, the index finger pointing up. Then, quickly bring the right index finger down, striking into space between space of the "V."
30. Fire or flames: Cup your right hand close to ground, the fingers partly closed, and then raise it a few inches from the ground with a short wavy motion.
31. Heart: Place your right hand against your heart with the thumb and fingers pointing down and slightly cupped.
32. Sad: Make the sign for heart and lower it to the ground.
33. Good: Hold your right hand near your body, with your palm down and thumb close to your left breast. Then, with your right arm horizontal, sweep the hand outward and a bit to the right.
34. All: Move your flat right hand in a horizontal circle, clockwise, in front of your chest.
35. Yes: Lift your right hand, the back of it near your right shoulder, with the index finger pointed forward and the other fingers closed, with the thumb resting on the middle finger. Then move your hand a bit to the left and at the same time touch your thumb with your index finger making a closed circle.
36. Thank you: Extend your hands in a forward direction, the palms down, and then lower them.
37. Time: Hold your hands at the level of your chest with the index fingers pointing forward and your other fingers closed. Then draw back the right hand to the right some inches.
38. Goodbye or the Future: Hold your hands at the level of your chest with the index fingers pointing forward and your other fingers closed. Then draw back the right hand to the right some inches and then bring it forward again, moving it over the left hand.
39. Past or before: Make the sign of time followed by the thrusting forth and drawing back of the right hand.
40. I, me, or mine: Point your thumb toward your body.