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352 By reason of the cross in the string in the First Position when you release the loops in the Third movement and draw the hands apart, each little finger loop becomes a slip noose around the opposite thumb. If the cross in the First Position be formed by the right thumb string passing over the left thumb string, you must take up the right palmar string first in forming Opening

A. WILL YOU HAVE A YAM?

Dr. Haddon has kindly given me this unpublished Torres Straits catch. The native name is Lewer = Food.

First: First Position.

Second: Pass each index away from you over the little finger string and to the far side of it, then draw the string toward you in the bend of the index (Fig. 796,

Left hand); turn the index up toward you in its usual position, thus turning the string around the tip of the finger (Fig. 796, Right hand).