Eskimo String Figures 



57 b 



Drop the thumb loops. 



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

 the proximal side the ulnar little finger strings. 



Drop the index loops and transfer the middle finger loops to the little fingers 

 and both little finger loops to the indices. 



With the ring and little fingers from the proximal side remove the thumb loops. 



Pass the thumbs into the little finger loops from the proximal side and with 

 their palms draw down the distal ulnar index strings, then with their backs from 

 the proximal side take up the ulnar little finger strings. 



Drop the little finger loops and with the little fingers from the proximal 

 side remove the thmnb loops. 



Transfer the index loops to the thumbs, and, inserting the indices into the 

 thumb loops from the distal side, draw out with their palms the upper trans- 

 verse string. Drop the thumb loops. 



You have "the fish-net." 



Fig. 60 



To obtain "the two polar bears" which tore "the net." 



There are four strings looping at different places round the upper trans- 

 verse string, and four others corresponding to them that loop round the lower 

 transverse string. They make "four eyes" at top and bottom. Transfer the index 

 loops to the thumbs. 



Pass each index from the distal side in between the first and second "eye" 

 from the bottom corner of the same hand just above the lower transverse string, 

 raise with it all the strings of the figure, and pass it out again through the corre- 

 sponding place just below the upper transverse string. Now with the palms of 

 these indices draw through the upper transverse string at each of these places 

 and drop the thumb loops. 



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Fig. 61 



"The net" disappears, and "two polar bears" are seen going away in 

 opposite directions. 



