36 E Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



XXVI. The Rabbit =«A;aZtg' 



This figure is known under the same name by the Diomede island, Barrow, 

 Inland, Mackenzie, Coronation gulf and Hudson bay Eskimos. It is almost 

 identical with No. XXIV, but differs in the mode of its formation. The two 

 seem to have been confused by the Barrow and Inland natives, who name both 

 figures "rabbit," while the other Eskimos call the former figure "caribou." For 

 another instance of confusion see No. XCVII. 



Hold the loop between the left index and the left thumb so that about two 

 inches of one end falls over the back of the thiunb. Hold the remainder of the 

 string — the long pendent loop — in the left hand, pass the right thumb and 

 index from above through the loop on the back of the left thumb, then with 

 the right thumb from the proximal side take up the proximal ulnar left thumb 

 string; simultaneously with the right index from the distal side take up the 

 distal ulnar left thimab string. Draw out the new right thumb and index loops. 



Circle the left thumb clockwise (inwards, then upwards and outwards). 



Pass the left little finger upwards on the distal side of all the strings and 

 with its palm draw down the radial right thimib string. 



With the right thimib and index lift up the strings on the back of the left 

 thumb, then with the back of the left thumb remove the right index loop from 

 the distal side and navaho the left thumb. 



Spread apart the two strings of the long pendent loop which still remain in 

 the right hand and you have "the rabbit." 



Fig. 32a 



XXVII. The "Ray-en = tulu'yaq 



This figure has been recorded from Indian point, Siberia, from Point Hope, 

 from Barrow, from Inland natives who wintered behind the Endicott mountains 

 south of CoUinson point, and from Coronation gulf. Everywhere it has the same 

 name, "the raven." I have no record of it from the Mackenzie, but do not 

 doubt that it exists there also. Boas found it in Cumberland sound, and Kroeber 

 in Smith sound, in both places under the same name, "raven." 



Opening A. 



Pass the ring fingers from the distal side into the little finger loops and 

 take up with them from the distal side, but on the proximal side of all the other 

 strings, the upper transverse string, and return, dropping the thimib loops. 



Again insert the ring fingers from the distal side into the little finger loops 

 and, releasing the little fingers, insert them from the proximal side into the 

 jing finger loops. 



