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Rh TWO STARS

I learned this figure at the St. Louis Exposition, in November, 1904, from the two Navaho girls, from Gallup, New Mexico, who taught me the other Navaho figures.

First: Opening A.

Second: Transfer the index loops to the thumbs, by putting each thumb from below into the index loop, with-

drawing the index, and returning the thumb to its position.

Third: Transfer the little finger loops to the thumbs, by bending each thumb away from you over the far thumb strings, and taking up from below on the back of the thumb the near little finger string; and then withdrawing the little finger, return the thumb to its position.

You now have three loops on each thumb (Fig. 285). Keep them well separated on the thumb: the original loop down.at the base, the loop taken from the index half-way up, and the loop taken from the little finger near the tip.

Fourth: Put each ring finger from below through the two lower thumb loops, and, pushing the two lower far strings away from you with the back of this finger (Fig. 286), bend the ring finger toward you over the upper far thumb string (the