To express 6, the Montagnais separates the thumb and forefinger from the three remaining fingers of the left hand, and bringing the thumb of the right hand close to them, says: "3 from each side." For 7 he either subtracts from 10, saying: "there are still 3 of them," or he brings the thumb and forefinger of the right hand up to the thumb of the left, and says: "on one side there are 4 of them." He calls 8 by the same name as many of the other Canadian tribes, that is, two 4's; and to show the proper number of fingers, he closes the thumb and little finger of the right hand, and then puts the three remaining fingers beside the thumb of the left hand.

This method is, in some of these particulars, different from any other I have ever examined.
It often happens that the composition of numeral words is less easily understood, and the original meanings more difficult to recover, than in the examples already given.

But in searching for number systems which show in the formation of their words the influence of finger counting, it is not unusual to find those in which the derivation from native words signifying _finger, hand, toe, foot_, and _man_, is just as frankly obvious as in the case of the Zuni, the Arawak, the Eskimo, or the Montagnais scale.

Among the Tamanacs,[74] one of the numerous Indian tribes of the Orinoco, the numerals are as strictly digital as in any of the systems already examined.
The general structure of the Tamanac scale is shown by the following numerals: 5.

amgnaitone = 1 hand complete.
6.