56 B Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



XL VI. The Scapulae ob the Head of the Cabibou 



Make "the gullet." 



Drop the index loops and invert the loops on the thumbs to make the 

 strings run straight. 



Put the thumb loops together, then from the proximal side take up the 

 ulnar little finger strings and navaho the thumbs. 



Near each thumb a string runs up from the lower transverse string to loop 

 round the upper transverse string. 



Pass the indices into the loop it thus makes just below the upper transverse 

 string and draw through the horizontal string which runs parallel and just 

 below the upper transverse string. 



Spread apart the thumb and index loops and you have "the scapulae," or, 

 according to the Copper Eskimos, "the head" of a caribou or musk-ox, the loops 

 that by the Mackenzie natives are considered "the scapulae" being the up- 

 standing horns. 



Fig. 59 



The Mackenzie natives then continue by grasping the two radial index 

 strings in one hand and the two radial thumb strings in the other. Separate 

 the two hands and you have "the little finger," or, as they call it diq (see fig. 20). 

 I have not seen this development among the Copper Eskimos. 



SECTION 2. FIGURES FOUND IN ALASKA AND 

 MACKENZIE RIVER ONLY 



XL VII. The Fish-net Toen by Polar Beabs 



This figure is known to the Barrow and Inland natives of North Alaska, 

 and to the Eskimos of the Mackenzie delta. 



Opening A. 



Pass the thumbs over the radial index strings and take up with them from 

 the proximal side the radial little, finger strings. 



With the backs of the middle fingers on the distal side of the index loops 

 take up the ulnar thumb strings. 



