ROTH] STRING FIGURES, TRICKS, AND PUZZLES 515 
651. Moon. War. (fig. 269). A similar figure comes from the 
Aiary River (KG, 1, 123). 
BH.—String in position 1. 
LH.—Wind ui 7 string once around 7 (A). Place AZ in this new 
loop from proximal side and draw out. 
Get an assistant to hold ra 7 string at its center fo draw it over 
(distal to) va ¢ string, to pass it below (proximal) and bring it up 
again on wl side of the two wi 7 strings; now make a loop at its center 
and drop this loop over each ¢ (Z). 
[In the absence of an assistant, the 
first part of this operation is done 
with the mouth. | 
BH.—Place ra / string over (dis- 
tal to) 7 loop onto ra side of thumb. 
BH.—Press i through its own 
loop into the palm, proximal to 
(below) the palmar strings, drop 
remaining loops off the other digits 
and draw out. 
Replace ¢ by 7 and ¢. 
652. The three-bar hammock. 
Mak. (fig. 270). Double the string: 
and, without any twisting, place it 
taut on ZZ in position 1, and upon 
the Z big toe (A). From radial to 
ulnar side, the strings can therefore 
be numbered from 1 to 4. 
With #¢ and 7 pick up No. 1, 
pass it distal to No. 2, and distal to 
No. 3, and taking up No. 3, drop aa 
No. 1. Pass No. 3 distal to No. 4, rar 
pick up No. 4 and drop No. 3, and Fic. 270.—The three-bar hammock. 
then loop No. 4 onto ZZ. (Makusi.) 
There now results a figure (4) with two inner strings ab, converg- 
ing from the radial and ulnar sides respectively of the ZL big toe. 
Pass a@ distal to No. 1, pick up No. 1, dropping a, and loop No. 1 
onto Lt. 
You now have your figure C with the four direct strings again. 
Repeat the two procedures alternately as above, until the string is 
too short to allow of further looping. 
Finally take the double loop from off the big toe and slip it onto 
Lm and r. 
653. Forked sticks, War., Mak.; Zatrpins, Ara., Car. (fig. 271). 
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