80 b 



Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



Navaho the thumbs and drop the index loops. 



You have "the two wolves," the front legs being the perpendicular loops 

 passing round the lower transverse string, one pair on each side, while the tails 

 and hind legs are at the top of the figure. 



Fig. 94 



LXVII. A Mouse (?) 



The Eskimos of Coronation gulf call this figure uvLnayjyyuk, a word that 

 seems to be connected with uvirjaiyoq, "it is bent or sloping." One native, how- 

 ever, thought that it might be the same as avm^aq which is the lemming or mouse. 

 The movements closely resemble those in "the duck" (No. L), of which it may- 

 be a forgotten version. 



Opening A. 



Pass the indices into the little finger loops from the distal side and circle 

 them clockwise so that they take up the radial little finger strings as well as 

 their own ulnar strings. 



Insert the middle and ring fingers into the index loops from the proximal 

 side, and hook them over the ulnar index and ulnar thumb strings while the 

 palms of the indices draw the radial thumb string (the upper transverse string) 

 through the index loops. 



Press the thumbs downwards, with the left thumb remove the right thumb 

 loops (or vice versa, according to which is outside the other), pass the right 

 thumb from the proximal side into both left thumb loops, then with both thumbs 

 from below take up the lower transverse string, thereby navahoing the thumbs. 



With the palms of the little fingers on the proximal side of all the strings 

 hook down the radial thumb (the transverse) string. Navaho the little fingers 

 and drop the thumb loops. 



There is a string on each side which runs from the radial index string to 

 loop round the ulnar index string and return, forming a kind of "eye." Remove 

 the index loops to the thumbs, pass each index from the distal side into the 

 nearer of these "eyes," and draw out with their palms the radial thumb strings. 

 Drop the thumb loops. You have "the mouse." 



Fig. 95 



