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Rh separating widely the loops held by each thumb and each index, at the same time holding down the lower string with the other fingers closed on the palm.

The first four movements of this figure are entirely new; the last is a characteristic Navaho movement.

A BRUSH HOUSE This figure was obtained by Mr. John L. Cox, at Hampton, Virginia, from a Pueblo Indian, Antonio Abeita, from Isleta, New Mexico. He called it Nathu —a Hut. Mr. Cox tells me that it is also known to Emma Jackson the Klamath Indian, who taught him the other Klamath figures. There is a finished pattern of this figure preserved in the Philadelphia Free Museum of Science and Art, collected by Mr. Stuart Culin at Zuni, New Mexico. It is numbered 22607 and labelled Pi-cho-wai, ham-pun-nai = a Brush House.

First: Put the untwisted loop on the index fingers only, and separate the hands. Pass each thumb from below into the index loop (Fig. 690, Left hand), bend it over the far index string and sweep it down, toward you, and up again (Fig. 690 , Right