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88 FENCE AROUND A WELL

This game is a continuation of "The Well"; it is called Sihnag, = "a Fence Around a Well," in Lifu, Loyalty Islands. It was taught Drs. Rivers and Haddon by the same native who taught them "The Well" (p. 149, Fig. 3).

First: Form "The Well."

Second: Pass each thumb away from you and put it up under the two near index strings, close to the index (Fig. I87); then, with the thumb and index of the

right hand, pick up from the back of the left thumb the lower single left thumb loop, and draw it over the upper two loops and off the thumb, and drop it on the palmar side.

With the thumb and index of the left hand, in the same manner, pick up the

lower single right thumb loop, and draw it over the upper two loops, off the thumb, and drop it.

Release the loops from the index fingers.

Third: Take all the fingers of each hand out of the lower loops which they