njSKimo String Figuren 129 b 



With the indices from the proximal side take up the radial middle finger 

 strings, navaho the indices and drop the middle finger loops. 



Insert the ring fingers from the proximal side into the Httle finger loops and 

 with these two fingers from the proximal side take off the thumb loops. Spread 

 apart the index loops. 



You have "the butterfly" with its wings outspread, one on each side below 

 the upper transverse string, its antennae being the two looping strings round 

 the middle of the upper transverse string in the middle of its course, and the 

 body the large oval beneath them. 



ex. The Child 



This figure, iXCKiyaq, "a child," comes from the Barrow and Inland natives 

 of northern Alaska. Being extremely simple it is usually the first that children 

 learn to make. The figure itself appears several times in the dissolutions of other 

 figures, where it always has the conventional meaning of "man" or "child." 

 (Cp. Nos. LX, LXIV, LXXX.) 



Pass one end of the loop behind the left thumb and index, and separate 

 with the right index the radial and ulnar strings about six inches from the left hand. 



With the back of the left little finger from below push out the radial left thumb 

 string, then hook its palm over the ulnar index string. 



(This is Opening C with one hand only.) 



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Fig. 170 



With the left thumb and index draw the radial right index string through 

 the left thumb-index loop. You have "the child." 



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