128 b 



Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



You have "the woman's knife," the blade uppermost and the handle at the 

 bottom. 



Fig. 168 



CIX. The Butterfly 



This figure is also confined to the Inland Eskimos of northern Alaska, 

 though probably known to the Barrow natives as well. It is called taqaluhicaq, 

 "the butterfly," and is altogether different from the "two butterflies" of the 

 Copper Eskimos (see No. LXXII). In its first stages it follows the method of 

 "the two seal-holes" (No. CVII) and kindred figures; in the later ones it greatly 

 resembles the procedure in "the seal-net" (see No. LXXXVII). 



Proceed as in "two seal-holes," but without dropping any of the loops in 

 the final stage. 



Across the palm of each thumb there runs a string between the radial and 

 ulnar thumb strings. Push each out to the distal side with the back of the 

 middle finger of its hand, then on the distal side of all the strings push the 

 middle finger loops through each other and interchange them on those fingers, 

 keeping them pointed inward. 



In the middle of the figure there are two intersecting diagonals. With the 

 backs of the middle fingers push out on each side the upper half of each of these 

 diagonals. 



