Eskimo String Figures 



77 b 



Drop the little finger loops, throw the long pendent string over the top of 

 the transverse strings to the distal side, then take it up again with the indices. 



With the backs of the little fingers push back the ulnar thumb and ulnar 

 index strings, then hook their palms over the radial index strings. 



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

 palms draw out the upper transverse string. 



Drop the thumb loops. You have "the whale carcase," its head being the 

 triangle towards the left hand below the upper transverse string. 



Fig. 88 



From the left palmar string two strings run to the middle of the figure. 

 Insert the left thumb in between these from the proximal side, so as to take up 

 with it the palmar string at that place, and drop the left little finger loop. You 

 have "the moon" rising in the right hand top corner while the men were cutting 

 up the carcass. • 



Fig, 89 



Slip the right thumb into the figure under the upper transverse loop just 

 to the left of the moon and drop the right index loop. You have a rhombus. 



Remove the left thumb loop to the left index, then with the palm of the 

 left thumb, from the proximal side, take up the right bottom string of the 

 rhombus, then the radial left index string. Navaho the thumb and drop the 

 left index loop. Drop the right little finger loop and hold the right thumb loop 

 in the right hand. 



Fig. 90 



You have "the dog that became sleepy and went home." If you sway the 

 right hand "the dog" will travel towards the left. 



