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Seventh Put the left thumb under the two right lower strings of the lozenge now formed near the left hand (Fig. 309) and pick them up on the back of the thumb. Return the thumb to its position (Fig. 310).

Eighth Put the left index finger with its loop from above through the left thumb loops, withdraw the thumb and straighten the finger (Fig. 311); transfer

FIG. 309.

FIG. 310.

FIG. 311.

the original left index loop to the thumb by picking up from below the near index string and withdrawing the index from all its loops (Fig. 312). Transfer the left

FIG. 312.

thumb loop to the index, by pulling the index into it from below and withdrawing the thumb.

Ninth Release the loops from the right thumb and little finger and draw the hands apart and the porcupine is formed near the left hand (Fig. 313).

This is a very easy figure because the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth move

FIG. 313.

ments are the same as tne Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth movements of the "Two Stars," but carried out on the left hand only. The Seventh and Eighth

movements are new ones.

The "Porcupine" appears to be really an Eskimo figure, and one very widely distributed; it is found in Alaska under the name of "Wolf" or "Wolverine" (p. 361), and, as a "Fox," is one of the six patterns from Smith Sound given by A. L. Kroeber in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, XII, 1899, p. 298.

CHAPTER V

FIGURES BEGINNING WITH OPENING A (CONTINUED) A CAROLINE ISLANDS CATCH-CIRCLES AND TRIANGLES -TEN MEN-A VARIATION OF TEN MEN-CAROLINE ISLANDS TRIANGLES CARRYING MONEY-HOUSE OF THE BLOS-BIRD THREE STARS-NO NAME-CORAL-A MAN-TWO CHIEFS A MAN AND A BED -A PALM TREE A CANOE WITH TWO MASTS-A HOUSE-FIGURES BEGINNING WITH A MODIFICATION OF OPENING A-W-M.

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A CAROLINE ISLANDS CATCH

HIS catch was shown to Dr. W. H. Furness in 1902 by a Natik woman, "Emily," who was returning to the Caroline Islands, on the steamer Oceana, from Australia, where she had gone from Ponapè as a nurse in an English family. Natik (or Ngatik) is a small island south of Ponapè, with a population of about one hundred and fifty. It has twice been swept by tidal waves and almost all of the inhabitants killed.

FIG. 314.

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The natives speak a strange dialect of Ponapè intermingled with English words. They are chiefly the descendants of an African negro from a whaling vessel and a native woman from Ponapè.

First: Opening A. (Taking up the right palmar string first.)

Second: Take the left hand out of all the loops, and let them hang straight down from the right hand held palm down with the fingers pointing to the left.

Third: Put the tips of the left thumb and little finger together and insert them from the left side into the right index loop (Fig. 314); then separate the left thumb and little finger, and, taking the loop off the right index, draw the

hands apart (Fig. 315). This movement arranges the string on the left hand in the "First Position," and on the right hand puts a twisted loop on the thumb, a twisted loop on the little finger and a string across the palm.

Fourth: With the left index take up from below (as in Opening A) the string on the right palm (Fig. 316) and separate the hands (Fig. 317).

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Fifth: Bend the left thumb away from you over the left near index string, and take up from below on the back of the thumb the left far index string (Fig. 318, Left hand), and return the thumb to its former position.

Sixth Bend the right thumb away from you over the right far thumb string, and take up from below on the back of the thumb the right near little finger string (Fig. 318, Right hand), and return the thumb to its position.

Seventh Bend the left index down, and pick up from below on the back of its tip the left near index string (Fig. 319, Left hand) and return the index to its position.

FIG. 318.

Eighth Bend the right index down, and pick up from below on the back of its tip the right far thumb string (not the string passing across the palm) (Fig. 319, Right hand), and return the index to its position.

Ninth: Keep the strings on the index fingers well up at the tips by pressing the thumb against the index, and bend each little finger over the far little finger string and all three fingers down on the palm to hold down the little finger string (Fig. 320). Then with the teeth pull the lower left thumb loop (the one whose far string

FIG. 319.

crosses the palm) up over the left upper thumb loop, over the tip of the thumb, and let it drop on the palmar side. In the same way with the teeth pull the right lower thumb loop off the right thumb. In each case be careful not to disturb the upper thumb loop (Fig. 321).

Tenth Release the loops from the little fingers, and extend the figure between

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