taunep = hand hand?
In describing this system Mr.Gatschet says: "If the origin of the Klamath numerals is thus correctly traced, their inventors must have counted only the four long fingers without the thumb, and 5 was counted while saying _hand away! hand off!_ The 'four,' or _hand high! hand up!_ intimates that the hand was held up high after counting its four digits; and some term expressing this gesture was, in the case of _nine_, substituted by 'one left over' ...

which means to say, 'only one is left until all the fingers are counted.'" It will be observed that the Klamath introduces not only the ordinary finger manipulation, but a gesture of the entire hand as well.

It is a common thing to find something of the kind to indicate the completion of 5 or 10, and in one or two instances it has already been alluded to.
Sometimes one or both of the closed fists are held up; sometimes the open hand, with all the fingers extended, is used; and sometimes an entirely independent gesture is introduced.

These are, in general, of no special importance; but one custom in vogue among some of the prairie tribes of Indians, to which my attention was called by Dr.J.Owen Dorsey,[82] should be mentioned.

It is a gesture which signifies multiplication, and is performed by throwing the hand to the left.