String-Fiqures from the Upper Potaro. 121 
Mountaln. 
Opening A. Release the thumbs. Take the loops from each little finger 
and place them on the distal end of the corresponding index finger 
upside down, the turn being anti-clockwise on the left hand as you look at 
the palm and clockwise on the right hand. “ Basket work” the thumbs, 
i.e., place each distal of the proximal string between the thumb and index 
finger, proximal of the proximal string between the index and middle fingers, 
distal of the distal string between the thumb and index finger and proximal 
of the distal string between the index and middle finger. Return to position. 
Fig. 4. The Mountain, 
Basket-work the little fingers by placing each distal of the string running 
from the index directly to the centre of the mesh and proximal to the one 
running directly between the index fingers. Return to position. 
Putting each index finger distal of the palmar strings twist on their ends 
the string running on the palmar side of the little finger by putting the index 
finger between this string and the little finger from the distal side and taking 
the string up en the back of the finger. Return to position. Release the 
thumbs and pull taut, turning the palms from you (Fig. 4). The end result 
is much like “ Little Fishes ” from Murray Island, but achieved in a different 
manner and much more appropriately named. 
Basoon’s Mourn. 
Place both hands in the string so that it passes back ofeach wrist. 
Grasping the strings near the middle with the right hand passed, from front 
to back, the radial string between the thumb and index finger of the left 
hand and the ulnar one between the middle and ring finger of the same hand. 
Return them to the front by passing them between the index and middle 
1 Miss Haddon, ‘‘ Cat’s Cradles from many Lands,’’ 12, 
