Eskimo String Figures 123 b 



Spread apart the radial and ulnar left index strings. You have "the shag." 



Fig. 158 



Drop the right thumb loop and take up with that thumb the upper trans- 

 verse string between the head and body of "the shag" (i.e. between the two 

 loops that pass round it). Drop the left little finger loop and hold the left index 

 loop in the left hand. 



You have "the beaver." 



Fig. 159 



Drop the left hand loop and draw out the lower transverse string, taking 

 hold of it just to the right of "the beaver's tail," i.e. the last loop on the left that 

 passes round it. You have "the squirrel." (This is "the ermine" of the Barrow, 

 Inland, Mackenzie, Coronation gulf and Hudson bay Eskimos, produced by 

 omitting the final movement in "the shag" above.) 



Fig. 160 



Drop the right little finger loop and draw out the lower transverse string 

 from between the two loops that pass round it. You have "the man." 



Fig. 161 



