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 CHAPTER VII

PYGMY DIAMONDS

MONG the African Batwa Pygmies, from the Congo Kasai Valley, at the St. Louis Exposition, was a bright little man, "Ottobang," who taught me this figure.

First: Put both hands through the loop of string, up to the wrists, and take up between the thumb and index of each hand a short piece of the upper wrist string. Then make a small hanging ring in this string, by passing the string held by the right hand toward you over the left hand string (Fig. 632). Turn this ring up,. and put first the fight thumb (Fig. 633 ) and then the left thumb (Fig. 634 ) away from you into the ring, and separate the hands (Fig. 635).

Second: Get another person to take between the thumb and index the cross formed in the centre of the figure by the far thumb and near wrist strings, and 276