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and dropping the thumbs, but not releasing their strings, so that they are 
below the bottom string. 
The resulting figure was called paekohu by Bella, but it is different from 
the figure commonly so called. 
To bring back komore :— 
1. A inserts his thumbs (hands held palms upwards) into the two small 
triangles with twisted apex on the left- and right-hand sides of the upper 
part of the figure, and the fingers into the large loop below. 
2. B releases his hands and A draws strings taut. 
3- A inserts middle fingers into thumb loops from above, lifts the near 
thumb string on their backs, turns palms away, and spreads fingers. 
Komore reappears, but held on different fingers from those of the original 
figure. 
Comparison. 
A comparison of komore with a figure from the Caroline Islands given 
by Mrs. Jayne has already been made (N.Z. Jour. Sci. & Tech., vol. 3, 
p. 205). A further comparison may be made with a nameless figure from 
New Caledonia (Compton* *) :— 
1. Position 1, on left hand only. 
Fig. 29 .—Komore produced from above continuation. 
2. Right hand into hanging loop from below ; insert hooked forefinger 
behind palmar string from above, pull out to full extent, and release 
forefinger. 
3. Repeat movement 2, and then place loose loop on right hand in 
position 1. 
4. Right forefinger takes up left palmar string as in opening A. 
The rest of the movements are as in komore , the only difference being 
that the movements made by the right fingers in komore are here made 
with the left, and vice versa. 
Continuation of Caroline Islands “ Catch.” 
In the dugong, from the Kiwai Papuans, British New Guinea (Landt- 
man, p. 229),| there is a most interesting continuation of the Caroline Islands 
“ catch,” or Murray Island “ kingfish,” both of which figures are the same 
as komore, though produced in a different way. 
I. Set up the “ kingfish ” ( N.Z. Jour. Sci. & Tech., vol. 3, p. 205). 
* R. H. Compton, loc. cit., pp. 212, 213. 
* G. Landtman, “ Cat’s Cradles of the Kiwai Papuans, British New Guinea,” 
Anthropos, vol. 9, pp. 221-32, 1914. 
