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• 4. Bend the little fingers towards you over the index loops, insert them 
from below into the thumb loop, straighten them to their original position, 
taking away on their backs the two far thumb strings. (In the centre 
of the figure there is now a small triangle, its sides formed of double 
strings.) 
5. Insert the index fingers from below into the small triangle, pulling 
out the sides on the backs of those fingers. Separate the hands. (There 
are now a double loop on each thumb and little finger, an upper double 
loop and a lower single loop on each index.) 
6. Turn the right palm towards you; bend down the little, ring, and 
middle fingers over all the strings of the right hand so that their tips press 
the palm. This is to hold the loops securely on the right 'hand whilst the 
right thumb and forefinger pick up the lower single loop on the left index 
and lift it up over the double loop, allowing it to drop on the palmar side 
of the index whilst the double loop remains on the index. 
7. Straighten the fingers of the right hand and turn the palm from 
you. Now turn the left palm towards you and repeat the sixth move¬ 
ment with the left hand. 
8. Release the loops from the thumbs, and draw the strings taut. 
9. Slip the loops on the index fingers towards their tips, and twist the 
loops tightly by rotating the index fingers three times away from you. 
10. Release the twisted loops from the index fingers, turn the palms 
towards you, when the loops will hang down. (In the Maori figure the 
two loops represent a man and a woman ; here they represent two men— 
a Murray Island and a Dauar man.) 
Fig. 11.—Fighting liead-lmnters (ares). 
11. By drawing the hands gently apart, at the same time working the 
palms towards and from you, the two men approach each other. Accord¬ 
ing to which loop is pulled, one of the hanging loops comes undone and 
slips through the other, which means the man has lost his head, and the 
other goes off home to the little finger, carrying the head with him. The 
manipulator is always able to make his favoured man victorious. 
(To be continued.) 
