Eskimo String Figures ' J41 b 



Transfer the left index loops to the left little finger from the distal side. 



The ulnar left thumb string passes through one loop, then through a second, 

 and continues to the middle. Drop the left little finger loop and take up with 

 it this ulnar thumb string after it passes through the first loop. 



You have "the dog with its ears." Drop the left thumb loop and it runs 

 away to the right. 



Fig. 185 



CXXIV. The Walbus 



This is an Indian point figure, the initial steps of the opening following 

 those of "the brown bear's pack" series. Afterwards it develops in a manner 

 of its own, though the different steps are familiar in other Eskimo figures. 



Lay a short length of the string over the thumbs. 



With the palms of the indices from above take up the transverse string 

 that passes from one thumb to the other and turn the indices outward. 



Bring the hands together and with the palm of the right thumb from below 

 take up the left thumb-index string. Do the same with the left thumb, then 

 draw the hands apart. 



(Hitherto the movements are the same as in "the brown bear's pack.") 



Insert the last three fingers of each hand into the index loops from below 

 from the proximal side and close them down over the radial index strings. 



Turning the indices inward, with their palms below the distal ulnar thumb 

 strings draw the proximal ulnar thumb strings through the index loops, pointing 

 the indices again outward. 



Turn the palms of the hands upward and with the backs of the little fingers 

 push out through the little finger loops the two radial thumb strings (the two 

 upper transverse strings). 



With the thumbs from the proximal side take up the radial index strings; 

 navaho the thumbs and drop the index loops. 



Transfer the right thumb loop to the right index from the proximal side. 



Transfer the left thumb loop to the right thumb from the proximal side. 



Transfer the left little finger loop to the left thumb from the proximal side. 



Transfer the right little finger loop to the left index from the proximal side. 



Invert the right index loop on that finger, turning it counter-clockwise; 

 then invert the right thumb loop, turning it clockwise. 



