132 Kathleen Haddon: 



Bend the index fingers, and, turning them up towards you, pick 

 up on their tips the straight median string of the figure, beyond the 

 twist. 



Release the thumbs, then pass them into the little finger loops^ 

 proximally, and pick up on their backs the oblique string (which 

 runs straight across), and extend. 



15. (Plate XXIII.) — A Waterspout = i¥«r«;. (Cape York). 



Make the Canoe. 



Pass the thumbs distal to the oblique strings crossing the index 

 loops, and pull this string down, then pass them to the palmar side 

 of the palmar string, and pick this string up on their backs, return- 

 ing through their original loops. 



Release the little fingers, then pass them distal to the ulnar index 

 string, and pick up proximally the radial index string (that runs 

 straight across). 



Pindiki the ulnar index string and extend, by separating the 

 thumbs and indices, so that the radial thumb and the ulnar index 

 strings are parallel and in a plane at right angles to the rest of the 

 figure. 



16. (Plate XXII.)— A 1,IZAHV= Yawundi. (Cape York). 

 Opening A. 

 ^ Pass the radial string over the rest and place it on the toe. 

 Exchange index loops, passing the right through the left one. 

 ' Pass the middle fingers distally through the index loops and pick 

 up the ulnar thumb string on their backs, returning through the 

 index loops. 



Release the thumbs, indices and little fingers and draw out, and 

 the Lizard will run up a tree. 



17. Plate (XXIII.)— Two MEN = ^m«. (Cape York). 



Opening A. 



Pass the thumbs distally through the index loops and pick up the 

 radial little fingers strings proximally. Release indices, and navaho 

 ■ thumbs. 



Take the thumb loops between the thumb and index fingers and 

 pull the radial string so that the central loop decreases in size, then 

 reverse, and it enlarges again. 



Of. Roth (loc. cit.), pi. xii., 2. "Canoe." Cape Grafton, Cape Bedford, Nijrlit Island, Princess- 

 Charlotte Bay. 



