. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Eskimo String Figures 153 b * Drop the index loops, withdraw the ring fingers from their loops and insert them both into the two loops that the thumbs have just taken up; then with the palms of the indices from the distal side draw through the radial thumb strings (all of them) and drop the thumb loops. You have "the old woman with the pack on her back" (the sheaf of hori- zontal strings bound by two half-hitches), her two legs being the two loops that pass round the lower transverse string. The Inland Eskimo
. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Eskimo String Figures 153 b * Drop the index loops, withdraw the ring fingers from their loops and insert them both into the two loops that the thumbs have just taken up; then with the palms of the indices from the distal side draw through the radial thumb strings (all of them) and drop the thumb loops. You have "the old woman with the pack on her back" (the sheaf of hori- zontal strings bound by two half-hitches), her two legs being the two loops that pass round the lower transverse string. The Inland Eskimos at this stage say: aqoviyoq aqoviyoq na-mi natmdluqdtaitcdhn tdtkiya "Old lady, old lady, where is the bundle you are carrying?" "There it is" (dropping the index loops). The Mackenzie natives say: aqoviyoq ndtmdluqdtaitcdUn qaiXit uva "Old lady, your pack give ; "Here it is" (dropping the index loops). At the last words "the pack," according to the Inland Eskimos, is thrown out of the window by "the old ;. Fig. 202 CXXXV. A Fish The Colville river Eskimo from whom I learnt this figure called it lydlune, which he said was a species of fish. An Inland native from the Endicott mount- ains knew a figure with the same name, and with a chant the same as that of the Colville river Eskimo's, but said that the latter's figure was incorrect, though he himself had forgotten how to make the true figure. The opening is simple, and found in several other figures. Position 1. With the back of each thumb from the distal side take up the ulnar little finger string of the opposite hand and drop the little finger loops. Insert the little fingers into the thumb loops from the proximal side, move them towards the middle, allow the lower transverse string to fall off, then hook the little fingers over it and hold it firmly against the palms. Pass the indices into the thumb loops from the distal side and with their palms draw thr
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