. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Eskimo String Figures 161 b CXLI. A Man Throwing a Duck-noose This figure, which comes from Indian point, is very similar to the two pre- ceding. The nooses or snares which it represents are whale-bone nooses fastened to the end of a long seal-skin line. The ducks come to peck at it and get their feet caught in the nooses, when the hunter drags them in. The movements and the final figure bear some resemblance to No. IX, and it is not improbable the two had a common origin. The Chukchee have a figure called "mice&q
. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Eskimo String Figures 161 b CXLI. A Man Throwing a Duck-noose This figure, which comes from Indian point, is very similar to the two pre- ceding. The nooses or snares which it represents are whale-bone nooses fastened to the end of a long seal-skin line. The ducks come to peck at it and get their feet caught in the nooses, when the hunter drags them in. The movements and the final figure bear some resemblance to No. IX, and it is not improbable the two had a common origin. The Chukchee have a figure called "mice" which seems to be somewhat similar. Position 1. With the palm of the left thumb, then with the palm of the right, take up the opposite little finger strings and drop the little finger loops. Proceed exactly as in the last figures until you reach a figure almost identical - with the common stage in those figures, "the two diamonds," Pass the left thumb into the figure under the intersecting diagonals in the middle, raise those strings, insert the right thumb into the left thumb loops and complete the movement of katilluik. Insert the right index into the middle of the figure just below the upper transverse string, and the right middle finger just above the lower transverse string, drop the thumb and little finger loops on the right hand and draw the strings taut. Hook down the ulnar right index string from the proximal side with the right middle finger and navaho the middle finger. Reverse the right index in its loop and transfer the right middle finger loop to the right little £nger. Similarly on the left hand transfer the thumb loop to the index. Two strings run together from the palmar right hand string to the left hand. Pass the right thumb under the upper transverse string from the proximal side and twist its back round these two strings. Insert the left thumb into the right thumb loops from the proximal side, then with each thumb from the proximal side take
Size: 2426px × 1030px
Photo credit: © Central Historic Books / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectscienti, bookyear1919
