cuLin] CAT’S CRADLE: ESKIMO 767 
explanation, it was not approved by the medicine man from whom I obtained 
the above. Na’ atlo, it is-twisted, is the term for cat’s cradle. 
Navano. Chaco canyon, New Mexico. 
Cat’s cradle (figure 1048), called carrying wood, chizh joyeti. Figure 
made for the writer by Dr Alfred Tozzer, who collected the speci- 
men, with others, among the Navaho in 1901. 
In addition to the above figure, Dr Tozzer furnished Prof. Alfred 
C. Haddon * with the following list of cat’s cradles, which he collected 
among the Navaho: 
Man, dénné; sternum with ribs, ai-yit; woman’s belt, sis; bow, at!-ti; arrow, 
ka; two hogans, naki-hogan or at'-sa-hogan; sand-painting figure, “os-shis-chi ; 
coyote, ma-1; bird’s nest, a-to; horned toad, na-a-sho-i-di-chizi; butterfly, ga-hi- 
ki; star, so-a-hinat'san-"ti-i, 
Fig. 1048. Cat's cradle, carrying wood; Navaho Indians, Chaco canyon, New Mexico; cat. no. 
22738, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
The general name for these figures is na-ash-klo, according to Mr Tozzer. 
The term na signifies a ** continuous movement; ” ash is “I,” and klo is the root 
word of “ weaving.” Perhaps “ continuous weaving” would be a fair transla- 
tion of the Navaho word. 
Professor Haddon gives directions for making the hogan, two 
hogans, and carrying wood, many (group of) stars, owl, and light- 
ning, and illustrates the perfected figure of each. 
Tsersaur. Portland, British Columbia. 
Dr Franz Boas” mentions their playing the game of cat’s cradle. 
ESKIMAUAN STOCK 
Eskimo (Centrat). Frobisher bay, Baffin land, Franklin. 
Capt. Charles F. Hall ° says: 
The Innuit social life is simple and cheerful. They have a variety of games 
of their own. In one of these they use a number of bits of ivory, made in the 
“String Figures and Tricks. American Anthropologist, n. v. 5, p. 220, 1903: 
>Report of the Sixty-fifth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of 
Science, p. 568, London, 1895. 
e Arctic Researches, p. 570, New York, 1860. 
