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Rh Seventh: Release the loops from the thumbs and draw the strings tight. "Crow's Feet" was taught to Dr. Haddon by a Pullman porter of European, negro and Cherokee parentage, which may account for the absence of what, for lack of a better term, we may call "savage characters."

From the figure shown to Mr. John L. Cox by an Onondaga Indian, Charles Doxon, we know that "Crow's Feet" is done by the Indians in the typical Indian way. This method differs from "The Leashing of Lochiel's Dogs" only in the

Third and Fourth movements:

Third: Insert each thumb from above into the index loop, and pick up from below the far index string; return the thumb to its position, and withdraw the index.

Fourth: Turning the hands toward you and closing the fingers on the palms, let the far wrist string slip toward you along tile fist until it comes to the index finger, when the whole wrist loop can be readily transferred to the middle finger.



Hogan is the Navaho name for a tent; two tents are Naki-hogan or Atl-sa-hogan. This game was taught to Dr. Haddon, in 1901, by the two old Navahos in Chicago. (Haddon, 5, p. 221, pl. xv, Fig. 1.) An example of the finished pattern is preserved

in the Philadelphia Free Museum of Science and Arts; No. 227e3, collected by Mr. Culin, from the Navahos at St. Michael's Mission, Arizona.

First: Opening A.

Second: With the mouth, take up, from the centre of the figure, the four crossed strings, and draw them toward you and hold them firmly (Fig. 268).

Third: Release the loops from the thumbs and index fingers, and let them hang down; the index loops form two short hanging loops, the thumb loops form one long hanging loop.