88 b 



Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



*Insert the remaining three fingers of each hand into the index loops and 

 hook them down over the radial index and ulnar thumb strings. 



With the palms of the indices from the distal side take up the radial thumb 

 strings and drop the thumb loops. 



With the thumbs from the proximal side take up the radial middle finger 

 strings, and drop the loops held in the last three fingers. 



Repeat this movement from * twice, then drop the strings on the last three 

 fingers and hold the index loops in the hands. 



You have a series of loops crossing the upper and lower transverse strings 

 alternately. These are "the children." 



Fig. 103 



Sway the hands and they crowd together in the middle. Draw them apart 

 again with the indices. Chant : 



i'XiXiyaiyat ajoyotiaqdyaci Children, it is carrying you off. 



ayoi yoi yoi 



The children were playing on an ice-keg. The sea split it in two (strain 

 the hands apart, when the knot breaks, leaving a tangle of knots in the middle). 

 Half of the children were carried off and the other half left 'behind (the two 

 groups of tangles that are formed). 



THE TWO HIPS CYCLE 



LXXVI. The Two Hips 



This figure was called by the Eskimos of Barrow and of the Colville river 

 qucik, which was thought to mean the same as qotcik, "the two hips" of a man. 

 The next stage in the figure was called in^uk, "two men." I have no record of 

 the figure from the Mackenzie region, but a Coronation gulf Eskimo gave the 

 name qoUynaqtoyyuk, "two hips," to a slightly modified stage preceding the 

 Barrow figure. The continuation, "two men," he called xukayyuk, i.e. "the two 

 sticks that support the lamp." Another Copper Eskimo from the same region 

 gave the names "two hips" and "two men," to two other figures obtained in an 

 altogether different manner (see No. XCIII). 



Position 1. 



Turn the hands outward, then down and upward again so that the thumbs 

 twist round the little finger strings and the little fingers round the thumb strings. 

 The palmar string then passes round the outside of both the thumb and little 

 finger of each hand. With the indices take up the opposite palmar strings, as 

 in Opening A. 



