168 B Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



You have figure 220, which the Mackenzie and Copper Eskimos call "the 

 closed door." 



Fig. 220 



The Inland Eskimos chant with it: 



iti.q'Yap qaymn nutcuktuya From its tail I pull the hairs. 



ai ye xya 

 cautdtcia ai ye xya 

 putuajote It snapped. 



CXLVIII. The Breast-bone and Ribs of a Caribou 



This figure is known from Barrow to Coronation gulf under the same name, 

 though modified a little according to the dialect. At Barrow it is called 

 cakieyik', in the Mackenzie delta cdkLJ-at, and in Coronation gulf hakij-d. A 

 native at Baillie island called it cdkidtcidt, which means "a small breast-bone." 

 Mrs. Jaynes gives it from a "Tupek" Eskimo of Alaska with the same name. 

 On the west coast of Hudson bay, and in Cumberland sound, Baffin island, it 

 is called "the breast-bone and ribs of a man." The opening is found in two 

 other figures, tarjdyot (No. LXII), and "caribou" (No. XXV). 



Loop behind the thumbs, middle fingers, and little fingers of each hand. 

 With the backs of the indices take up the opposite palmar index strings. 

 Similarly with the ring fingers. 



With the thumbs from the proximal side take up in succession, navahoing 

 them after each operation: 



the radial index strings; 



the radial mid-finger string on one side and the ulnar index finger 



string on the other {i.e. the upper of the two crossing strings); 

 the single transverse radial mid-finger string; 

 the upper of the crossing radial ring finger strings; 

 the single transverse radial ring finger string; 

 the upper of the crossing radial little finger strings; 

 the single radial little finger string. 

 With the little fingers from the distal side, and on the distal side of all the 

 strings, remove the thumb loops. 



Hold the uppermost transverse string in the mouth, and you have "the 

 sternum" with "the ribs" running off on each side. 



