evuis] CAT’S CRADLE: ESKIMO 769 
The thumb and first finger of the right and the thumb of the left hand let go 
their loops. The whole is then drawn tight. 
In addition to the above, Doctor Boas? illustrates two other cat’s 
cradles from this locality, one called amaroqdjung, wolf (figure 
1050a), and the other ussuqdjung (figure 10506), and he deseribes 
the manner in which all are made. 
Fig. 1050. 
Fig. 1051. 
Fic. 1050 a, b. Cat's cradle; a, amaroqdjung, wolf; b, ussuqdjung; Central Eskimo, Cumber- 
land sound, Baffin land, Franklin; from Boas. 
Fig. 1051 a, b, c. Cat’s cradle; fox, raven, polar bear; Ita Eskimo, Smith sound, Greenland; 
eat. no. §%, ffs, dvs. American Museum of Natural History; from Kroeber. 
Esxro (Ira). Smith sound, Greenland. 
Dr A. L. Kroeber ° figures the following cat’s cradles: Fox (figure 
10512), raven (figure 10516), polar bear (figure 1051c), narwhal 
(figure 1052), hare (figure 10526), and walrus head (figure 1052c). 
4 Internationales Archiv fiir Ethnographie, v. 1, p. 233, Leiden, 1888. 
> Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 12, p. 298-300, New York, 
1800, 
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