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200 and you release the loops from the thumbs and index fingers, and draw the strings tight to extend the figure (Fig. 455)

In forming this figure a native would not require the aid of a second person, but would use the toe to draw down the crossed near index strings, in the Second move-

ment. To prepare for this it is necessary after Opening A to turn the hands with the thumbs up and the fingers pointing away from the body.

A HOUSE Dr. Furness collected this figure in the Island of Uap, Western Carolines in 1902, from the same little boy who taught him "Carrying Money." The native name is Nuan. The pattern is known to the Maoris of New Zealand, and to the blacks of North Queensland (see Roth, plate xii, Figs. 4, 5, reproduced on page 385 of