104 Mr. W. W. Rouse Ball [March 12, 



Pass the middle fingers proximally through the index loops and take 

 hold of the radial thumb string between the index and middle 

 fingers ; turn these fingers down and then up away from you, 

 bhuB picking up this string on the tips of the index fingers. 

 Release thumbs and extend. 



This represents the same river flowing beside a range of mountains. 



With the backs of the thumbs pick up from the proximal side the 

 strings which obliquely cross the index-finger loops. 



The figure is now in two planes, and represents the mosquito that 

 lives in the river. The proboscis lies in the centre between the 

 thumb and index strings, whilst the long wings sweep down towards 

 the little fingers. 



Release index fingers. Pass index fingers into the thumb loops from 

 the distal side, releasing thumb, and extend. 



Here the river has reached the plains and has only one mountain 

 beside it. 



With the left thumb pick up from the proximal side the straight 

 string which forms the river at the base of the mountain, rotate 

 the thumb once clockwise, thus wrapping the string once round 

 it. Pass the right thumb into the left thumb loops and extend. 



Pass thumbs proximally into index loops, navaho them and release 

 index fingers. Transfer thumb loops to index fingers and extend. 



This shows a man standing up in a boat, whilst near the right 

 hand is a salmon. (Fig. 18tf.) 



Fig. 18a. — A Man Fishing and a Salmon. 



Release right little finger ; the man throws out his line and catches 

 the salmon. 



The first stage of this , figure has already been described,* from 

 St. Michael Island, where it is called " Two Mountains and a Stream," 

 = tituchtak. 



* Gordon, G. B., " Notes on the Western Eskimo." Trans, of the Depart- 

 ment of Archaeology, Free Museum of Science and Art, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 

 vol. ii. pt. 1, 1906, p. 87. 



