Eskimo String Figures 19 b 



IX. The Dog and its Ob.j>vke =qi,m'Lq anaqtoaq (Mackenzie) 

 The Bird and its Noose =onagopditaag (Coronation gulf) 



Position I. 



With the thumbs from the proximal side take up the opposite palmar strings 

 (the left thumb taking up the right palmar string outside the new right thumb 

 loop, as in "the dog dragging the sled"). With the indices from the distal side 

 remove the little finger loops. 



Insert the little fingers from below from the proximal side into both the 

 thumb loops and hook their palms over the radial index string on the proximal 

 side of the ulnar index strings. 



With the palms of the indices from the distal side draw the upper transverse 

 string through the index loops and navaho the thumbs. 



Katilluik the thumbs. 



Transfer the thumb loops to the indices. 



From the right palmar string there are two strings, one running horizontally 

 to the middle, the other diagonally to loop round the upper transverse string. 



Insert the right thumb into the right index loop from thje proximal side, 

 and twist its back round these two strings; then insert the left thumb from the 

 proximal side into both right thumb loops, take up with each thumb the radial 

 index string of its hand, navaho the thumbs, and drop the index loops. 



At the back of the figure, i.e. on the distal side of all the strings, there are 

 now two horizontal strings in the middle. (There are two others running parallel 

 to them on the proximal side.) 



Fig. 12 



With the palm of the right index from below, on the distal side of all the 

 strings, raise these two horizontal strings at the back, then pass the index through 

 the right thumb loop from the distal side, and with the palm of the index draw 

 out, and through the thumb loops, the lower transverse string, taking it up where 

 it is intersected between two loops. 



Again pass the right index with its loop through the right thumb loop from 

 the distal side, and, dropping the left little finger loop, transfer the right index 

 loop to the left little finger from the distal side. 



Pull out to the left the loop in the middle nearest the left thumb. You 

 have on the left "the noose," and on the right "the bird" with its head uplifted; 

 or, according to the Mackenzie natives, "the dog's ordm-e" on the left and "the 

 dog" departing to the right, the head of the "bird" according to the Coronation 

 gulf natives being "the dog's tail." 



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