Eskimo String Figures 53 b 



Opening A. 



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

 with their palms take up the ulnar thumb string on one side and the radial index 

 string on the other (the same string, but the one of the two diagonals which 

 passes over the other). 



Drop the little finger loops. 



Turn the middle fingers down and insert the ring and little fingers into the 

 middle finger loops froih the proximal side, releasing the middle fingers. 



The ulnar left index string crosses over and loops round the radial right 

 index string, then runs under the ulnar right thumb string to the left palmar 

 string. 



Bring the left index across and with its palm take up this string just before 

 it passes under the ulnar right thumb string, and return. 



Pass the right middle finger into the right thumb loop from the proximal 

 side (i.e. so that the back of the middle finger pushes out the ulnar right thumb 

 and the radial and ulnar right index strings) and draw across with its palm the 

 two radial left index strings. 



Similarly pass the left middle finger into the left index loops and with its 

 palm take across the right ulnar thumb string, drawing it through the left 

 index loops.* 



Pass the left thumb into the left middle finger loop from the distal side and 

 draw through with its back the radial right index string Just where it loops 

 round the two ulnar left index strings. 



Drop all the loops on the right hand except the little finger loop, and the 

 ring, middle and index loops of the left hand. 



Dropping the left thiunb loop, with the left thumb and index take hold of 

 what was the radial right index string, and with the right thumb and index 

 take hold of the same string after it loops round another string. 



Separate the two hands, placing these loops on the thumbs. 



You have "the beluga." 



Fig. 55 



The Inland Eskimos continue as follows : 



There are two strings which run from each palmar string up to a short 

 string that loops round the upper transverse string. 



Pass the indices from the distal side in between these two strings on each 

 side and with their palms from the distal side draw out the upper transverse 

 string. 



