52 B Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



XLII. Haih-pulling = nuydktoyyuk (Copper Eskimos) 



This figure bears some resemblance superficially to the previous one, and 

 has the same name, which suggests that the Copper Eskimos learned the correct 

 figure "hair-puUing" from the Mackenzie or Hudson bay natives, but forgot it 

 again; in trying to recall it they arrived at this approximation. 



Opening A. 



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

 verse string. 



Drop the thumb loops and transfer the index loops to the thumbs. 



With the indices from the distal side remove the little finger loops. 



Pass the little fingers from below into the thumb loops from the proximal 

 side and, pressing back the ulnar strings, hook their palms over the radial index 

 strings. 



Insert the indices from the distal side into the thumb loops, and with their 

 palms draw through the upper transverse string, thereby navahoing the indices 

 and the thumbs. 



Katilluik the thumbs. 



You have "the two women" going away, one towards each hand. 



Fig. 54 



XLIII. The Beluga 



This figure is called by the Barrow and Inland Eskimos cicuaq, "the 

 beluga." The Mackenzie and Copper Eskimos call it qildluyaq, which in the 

 Mackenzie dialect means "the beluga." Boas obtained it from the west coast 

 of Hudson bay and from Cumberland sound with the same name "white whale 

 or beluga," but Kroeber, who found it among the Smith sound Eskimos, calls it 

 "narwhal." In both this and the succeeding figure, "the seal," the movements 

 are very unusual and complicated. 



