164 b 



Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



Hold the left hand palm downward and lay one end of the loop over the 

 left thumb and index. Turn the left hand upward so that the index string 

 twists round the index and the thumb string round the thumb. 



Lay the other end of the long pendent loop over the left thumb and index 

 and navaho each separately. 



Two strings hang vertically from the string that runs behind the left thumb 

 and index. Take these up with the left hand and draw the hands apart. As 

 the radial and ulnar left hand strings are tightened and slackened alternately 

 a triangle opens and closes at the other end near the left hand. Chant: 



auyauyatjeqaq- eqaq- eqaq 

 camuy pikna mecamcukLctaqta 

 aumuy pikna mecamcuktctaqta 

 auyauyatjeqaq 

 qoK-ivackiye piyutaluni 

 cuvqayaq 



Auyauyangeqaq (a woman's name) 

 What is that up there you are eating? 

 It's blood up there you age eating. 

 Auyauyangeqaq 



Her coat as she was walking he tore it 

 off. 



(A man saw a woman named auyauyangeqaq standing above him and 

 asked her what she was eating. Finding that she was eating blood he tore her 

 coat off.) 



At the last word cuvqayaq release the left hand loops, insert the left hand 

 between the radial and ulnar right hand strings and strike it down so that it 

 cuts through the loops below it and comes away clear. The figure is the same 

 as fig. 187, which is obtained in an entirely different manner. 



Kg. 216 



