146 Timehn. 



2nd. Take up the left palmar string from below on the back of the right 

 index and middle fingers so as to form a single loop back of both 

 fingers. 

 Take up the right palmar string in a similar way. 



3rd. Transfer the left thumb loop on to the left index finger and the left 

 little finger loop on 10 the left middle finger. Transfer the right 

 thumb and little finger loops in the same way on to the right index 

 and middle fingers. 



4th. Bring the loop that is on the left index and middle fingers above the 

 loops on each of th ese fingers and then bring the latter loops on to 

 the palmar side. 



Perforin a similar mov ement on the right hand side. 



5th. Take a second cord in the teeth and make its loops hang down over 



the first cord very near to the finders. 

 6th. Insert the index and middle fingers of both hands ovor the palmar 



strings of the second cord, into their own loops of the first cord, and, 



bending the hands downwards, draw the second cord through the 



loops which will slip off the fingers by the action of bending and 



drawing, 

 "th. Stretch the second cord and the other one remains on it. We have 



now the hands downwards and palmar loops on the index and middle 



fingers of each hand. These are the second cord. 



8th. Place the loop that is on the right index on to the right toe and the 

 loop on the right middle finger on to the left toe. Transfer the loop 

 of the left middle finger on to the right index and stretch. 



Sometimes a second person takes hold of the loops of the second 

 cord instead of their being put on to the toes. This extremely pretty 

 pattern is illustrated in Fig. 10. 



The Makushis are very careful in certain uses of their words. For 

 instance, when a mirror h is been removed from its frame, that frame 

 is no longer a " looking-glass frame " but " what was a looking-glass 

 frame.'' This altered meaning is expressed by the suffix -ber. It occurs 

 in another of the figures of this article — Arduta-Mutdyeber. This means 

 really " what was the jaws of a monkey.' 



When I first learnt tins figure, the boy pointed to the frame of a 

 mirror. I asked him if ha, meant the mirror itself and he took the glasa 

 out of its frame and showed me the latter. When I took another empty 

 frame he shook his head, t-orae time later when Fr. Cary-Elwes had re- 

 turned, I sujgested that they could not have a Looking-glass Frame as 

 both mirrors and frames were essentially products of civilisation. He told 

 me, however, that the Malcushis have both even in those districts where 

 the Indians are still in their primitive conditions. 



