Eskimo String Figures 



175 b 



Carefully draw down towards the foot the strings running underneath 

 from one transverse string to the other. Say pi-^ipi-q (like the tern)', and dive 

 down under these two strings (between the "transverse" strings) with the right 

 index and snatch them up, just as the tern snatches up its prey. Both foot and 

 index are caught in rurn'.ng nooses. 



(The Mackenzie Eskimos, instead of diving down with the right index, 

 quietly pulled the ulnar left index strings with the right thumb and index, when 

 the figjire resolved.) 



Fig. 227 



CLV. A Floundbb (?) 



This figure, which comes from Indian point, requires the use of both the 

 indices of another person. It can be made, however, by using two pins or 

 similar objects instead of the other person's indices. 



Loop one end of the string over both the other person's indices, keeping 

 these close together. 



Pass both hands into the other end of the loop from below and, turning 

 the hands downward over their side strings, allow the wrist loops to fall over them. 



With each index draw out through each hand loop the string that runs 

 between the other person's indices, drawing your left index string through the 

 left hand loop and the right index string through the right hand loop. 



A string now runs from one hand to the other, and two strings come up 

 from the side strings, loop round it and return, thereby making a radial and an 

 ulnar string on each side. Pass the indices into these loops from the inside and 

 take up the ulnar strings. 



Thread one index loop through the other, interchanging them on the indices, 

 then draw through each the side string of its hand, and release all but these latter. 



Repeat the movement with the radial strings. 



Now separate the two loops on the interhand string, drawing out this latter 

 from between them, and drop all the strings save this one. 



