170 b 



Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



CL. A Bag-net 



This figure comes from the Inland natives of northern Alaska, who call it 

 qa\-u. The movements are very unusual and difficult to describe. 



Loop behind the thumbs and indices. 



With the backs of the thumbs take up the ulnar index strings. 



The transverse strings then run from the ulnar sides of the thumbs and the 

 radial sides of the indices. 



Take up in the mouth the left hand palmar thumb-index string where it 

 lies between the two transverse strings, and from the back {i.e. the distal side) 

 inserting the right thumb and right index in between the strings that hang down 

 from the mouth, take up with the right thumb the string which becomes the 

 ulnar index string and take up the other string with the right index. Drop the 

 strings in the mouth. 



Repeat this movement with the left hand. 



Carefully lay the strings on a flat surface, one hand at a time, the fingers 

 pointing downward; then from below insert the left thumb into the old left 

 index loops and the left index into the old left thumb loops. Similarly with the 

 right hand. 



Four diagonal strings now cross in the middle. Take these up in the mouth 

 and turn the thumbs and indices downward, allowing the two radial thumb 

 and the two radial index strings to fall over, but retaining the ulnar thumb and 

 radial index string of each hand. 



You have "the net." Spread out the hands and bring them together again 

 and the mouth of "the net" contracts and expands. 



