aessiaestem'thlak'ya = the fingers all the fingers.
1000.

aessiaestem'thlanak'yenaestem'thla = the fingers all the fingers times all the fingers.
The only numerals calling for any special note are those for 11 and 9.

For 9 we should naturally expect a word corresponding in structure and meaning to the words for 7 and 8.

But instead of the "four brought to and held up with the rest," for which we naturally look, the Zuni, to show that he has used all of his fingers but one, says "all but all are held up with the rest." To express 11 he cannot use a similar form of composition, since he has already used it in constructing his word for 6, so he says "all the fingers and another over above held." The one remarkable point to be noted about the Zuni scale is, after all, the formation of the words for 1 and 2.

While the savage almost always counts on his fingers, it does not seem at all certain that these words would necessarily be of finger formation.