Eskimo String Figures 



139 b 



You have "the cliff.' 



Fig. 182 



CXXI. A Small Bird (Pectoral sandpiper ?) 



This figure, like the last, was seen only among the Copper Eskimos, who 

 called it tu-toq, a small bird which was not certainly identified. 



The procedure is the same as in the preceding figure, save that with the 

 right thumb you take up not only the string which passes over the radial right 

 little finger string, but also the string which runs from the left palmar string to 

 loop round another just below the upper transverse string. 



Continue as in the other figure. At the close you have "the sandpiper," 

 its head being on the right where the radial right little finger string makes an 

 angle with another string. Below the head is the bird's puffed-out breast. 



Fig. 183 

 Drop the left little finger loop and it flies away. 



