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Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



LXXVII. The Phlegm 



A man from near Cape Thompson, in northwestern Alaska, called this 

 figure kiyiq, which he said meant "tongue." A Cape Prince of Wales woman 

 called it oxaq, which is practically the same as the ordinary word for tongue, 

 oqaq, that is used all along the coast as far as Coronation gulf. A Port Clarence 

 native recognized the figure, or at least its breaking down into nuvak, "the 

 phlegm." Some Siberian Eskimos from Indian point made a figure which seemed 

 to be the same, and produced in the same way, but they called it eveli, the name 

 of a shaman. They chanted some words to it: 



eveli iyuk-in Eveli, your two eyes. 



kanakyutikak He turns them round. 



kanakyuneyiman When he turned them round 



taqXukuk awavakun miluatikak . Afterwards he threw them away over there. 



Make "the two hips." 



On each side there is a string which runs from the palmar string to loop 

 round the two lower transverse strings (this is the string which is pushed out 

 in making the figure, "two men."). • 



Pass the indices in below these strings on the distal side of all the strings 

 and, raising them, draw through them with the palms of the indices from the 

 distal side the radial thumb strings. 



Carefully release the thumb loops. This leaves a small circle depending 

 from the upper transverse string on each side. 



Pass the thumbs directly into these from the proximal side, and, pressing 

 the lower string of each loop down before them, draw through with their backs 

 the two lower transverse strings. 



Release the little finger loops and transfer the thumb loops to the little 

 fingers from the proximal side. 



Remove the index loops to the thumbs and again with the indices raise the 

 string which runs across the back of each little finger and draw through it from 

 the distal side the radial thumb string, without releasing the thumb loops. 



Fig. 106 



If you draw the thumbs down you have the tongue lolling out at the base of 

 the two thumb loops. Cough and release the thumbs, and the "phlegm" flies 

 over the tops of the strings. 



