78 b 



Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



Drop the right hand loop and take hold with that hand of the lower trans- 

 verse string between the dog's legs, and draw it out. You have "the master" 

 following his dog home. 



Fig. 91 



Again drop the right hand loop and take hold of the lower transverse string 

 between the left Httle finger and the man's leg, and draw it out. You have "the 

 rope" that he hung up when he reached home. 



Fig. 92 



The Eskimo words are: 



aqveoqtodtyoq aqveogneaqmrjane tdtqeleotiye qi'medtyoq oinyaleqami aiyoq 

 malek-a m^ua akXundtcianiyoq qakildk-a 



"Men, it is said, were cutting up a whale. As they were cutting it up the 

 moon rose on them. Their pet little dog, it is said, growing sleepy, went home. 

 Its master followed it. His little rope, it is said, he hung up." 



LXV. The Dance-house 



This figure is known to the Mackenzie river Eskimos under the name 

 qajiyiq, "the dance-house." 



Opening A. 



Pass the thumbs down proximal to all the strings and with their backs from 

 the proximal side take up the ulnar little finger strings (the lower transverse 

 string). 



Pass the little, ring, and middle fingers into the index and thumb loops from 

 the distal side, and close them over the ulnar strings. 



Turning the indices inward push their loops through each other and inter- 

 change them on the indices. (If in making Opening A the right palmar string 

 is taken up before the left, the left index loop must be pushed through the right 

 index.) 



