96 B Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



LXXXI. Man and Woman 



This figure is known at Port Clarence, at Barrow, and by the Inland 

 Eskimos of northern Alaska. I have not seen it elsewhere, but it appears in 

 Captain Bernard's collection of Chukchee figures. Everywhere it bears the 

 same meaning. In its opening it resembles "the two hips" (No. LXXVI). 



Position 1. 



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

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

 (as in "the two hips"). 



With the indices take up the opposite palmar strings, as in Opening A. 



Pass the right thumb and index from the distal side through -the left index 

 loop and, taking hold bf the radial left little finger string, draw it through and 

 drop it over the left little finger. 



Do the same with the right hand. 



There are now two ulnar and one radial little finger strings on each hand. 

 Close the little fingers over the radial strings so that their ulnar strings slip off 

 the back. 



With each thumb from the proximal side take up the radial index string. 

 Navaho the thumbs and drop the index loops. You have "the man and woman." 



Fig. 116 



With the right thumb and index take hold of the radial left thumb string 

 and return with it, dropping that loop from the left thumb and spreading apart 

 the left little finger loops. You have "a woman standing outside a house." 



Fig. 17 



