Eskimo String Figures 131 B 



CXII. The Cape Peince of Wales Introduction 



Make Stage A in the shag cycle (fig. 157). 



A string, after looping round the lower transverse string, runs up to the mid- 

 dle to loop round a similar string coming from the upper transverse string. 



With the palm of the left thumb from the right side of the former of these 

 two strings take it up on the thumb, then with the back of the same thumb from 

 the left side take up the latter of the two strings just where it leaves the upper 

 transverse string. 



With the left thumb from the proximal side now take up the radial index 

 string; navaho the thumb and drop the index loop. 



(If now you were to release the left little finger loop you would have "the 

 dog" followed by "the sled.") 



Insert the left index from the distal side into the right index loop, the left 

 ring finger into the right little finger loop, and the left middle finger in between 

 the ulnar left index and the radial left little finger strings. Draw the strings 

 taut, and drop the index and Httle finger loops of the' right hand over the back 

 of the left hand, so that they hang down loose. 



This is the end of the introductory stage. 



CXIII. The Babeow and Inland Inteodtjction 



This is the same as "the dog" as made in No. XCV ("the fox" of the Mac- 

 kenzie and Coronation gulf natives), before the left little finger loop has been 

 dropped (see the description of that figure). Continuing (just as in the Cape 

 Prince of Wales opening), insert the left index into the right index loop, the left 

 ring finger into the left little finger loop, and the left middle finger in between 

 these other two. Drop all the loops on the right hand. 



CXIV. The Mackenzie and Coeonation Gulf Intboduction 



Loop the string behind the thumb, middle finger, and little finger of the 

 left hand. 



Pass the right hand into the rest of the pendent string from below, and 

 with the right index and middle fingers take up respectively the palmar index and 

 ring finger strings of the left hand and draw them out through the right hand loop. 



Insert the index, middle and ring fingers of the left hand into the right hand 

 loops as in the Cape Prince of Wales and Barrow introductions and drop the 

 right hand loops. 



Subsequent movements in all three figures 



Insert the right thumb and index into the loop that hangs down from the 

 left ring finger, give it a half-turn clockwise, and drop it over the left index so 

 that its pendent strings fall beyond the corresponding loop pendent on the left 

 index. In the same manner insert the right thumb and index into this latter 

 pendent loop, give it a half-turn clockwise and drop it over the left ring finger. 



There is now on each left index and ring finger a long pendent loop, and also 

 a string which passes across the back of each of these fingers. With the right 

 index and middle finger take up these latter strings, one with each finger, and 

 separate the hands, drawing all the strings taut. 



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