Eskimo String Figures 



101 B 



Release the indices and insert them from the proximal side into the middle 

 finger loops and see-saw them up and down, saying tamohtuya tamohturja, "1 am 

 chewing." You have "a man chewing." 



Fig. 123 



The Inland Eskimos then add: 



cua nuxn-atamoynianamni Lo, as he was chewing a brown bear came 



aklaluk along. 



Withdraw the left index from the middle finger loop, insert it from below 

 between the ulnar thumb strings and with its back push out the two radial 

 strings. 



Drop all the loops on the right hand except the little finger loop, on the left 

 all except the index and little finger loops, and draw the hands apart. You 

 have "the brown bear." 



Fig. 124 



LXXXVII. The Seal Net' 



This figure also seems to be confined to the Barrow and Inland Eskimos, 

 who call it iyalaq, i. e. the rectangular net which is set at a seal-hole or across a, 

 tide-crack in the ice. The figure is a logical continuation of "the two caribou 

 tongues," after the manner of another figure known to the Barrow and Inland 

 Eskimos, "the butterfly" (see No. CIX). 



' For a description of this net see J. Murdoch, Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, 

 1892, p. 251. 



