46 B Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



A parallelogram is formed in the middle. With the palm of the right 

 thumb from the proximal side take up the side of the parallelogram which runs 

 from the middle of the figure to the lower transverse string, then take up with 

 it from the proximal side the radial index string. 



Navaho the thumb and drop the right index loop. 



Drop the left little finger loop and the fox will run away towards the right. 

 Say: 



teriydn-ialum maUkcuyaluaqXuyo dn-udka 



"The white fox, when the post tried to fall on it, ran away." 



Fig. 46 



XXXVI. Two Big Eyes 



This figure was called pLyyutak, "two snow-shovels," by a Cape Prince of 

 Wales native. At Barrow and among the Inland Eskimos it bore the name 

 iyiyiyo'k, "two big eyes," but a figure obtained prior to the final movement was 

 called pikyutak, which also means "two snow-shovels." A Mackenzie native 

 called the final figure pikcukatcidk, the meaning of which he did not know. 

 Coronation gulf natives call it pikhuyyuk, which is said to mean "a man with 

 his arms raised above his head." A figure that is very similar, and must entail 

 only some slight modification in the movements, is known to the Chukchee and 

 to the eastern Eskimos. The Chukchee call it "whale's head," on the west coast 

 of Hudson bay it is known as "shears" and in Cumberland sound it is called 

 anawhokshan, the meaning of which I do not know. It is not improbable that 

 there is some error in my description and figure given below, and that the figure 

 known from Alaska to Coronation gulf is exactly the same as the Chukchee and 

 Eastern Eskimo figure. 



Opening A. 



With the palms of the indices from the distal side take up the upper trans- 

 verse string and drop the thumb loops. 



With the thumbs from the proximal side, on the proximal side of all the 

 other strings, take up the radial httle finger and proximal ulnar index strings. 



Pass the thumbs over the index strings, raise up with them, from the 

 proximal side, the ulnar little finger string, then also from the proximal side 

 take up with them the distal radial index strings, and draw them through, 

 thereby navahoing the thumbs. 



Drop the little finger loops. 



There are now three medial transverse strings running parallel to the upper 

 transverse string. 



Pass the little finger upwards on the proximal side of all the strings and 

 with their palms hook down the uppermost of these medial transverse strings 

 at their side sections. i 



Pass the middle fingers from the proximal side into the index loops and 

 close the two fingers over the radial strings; then with the palms of the indices, 

 draw through the upper transverse string and drop the thumb loops. 



