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56 Fifth: Complete the figure by doing the Filth, Sixth and Seventh movements of "Many Stars" (Fig. IX3).

The figure will be extended more perfectly if you give the upper index string one more turn around the tip of each index finger.

The only difference between the movements of this figure and those of "Many

Stars" is in the Fourth movement; you draw the far little finger string back through the thumb loop from above, instead of from below.

SEVEN STARS This is another of the Navaho games taught me by the two Navaho girls from Gallup, New Mexico. The native name is Dil-ye-he=the Pleiades. The Philadelphia Free Museum of Science and Art has an example of the finished pattern,

No. 22717, collected by Mr. Culin from the Navahos at St. Michael's Mission, Arizona.

The first five movements are the same as the first five movements of "Many Stars."

Sixth: Withdraw each thumb from the loop, passing around both thumb and index, and keep this loop high up on the index. You now have two loops on each index and a loop on each thumb.

Seventh: Pass each thumb from below through both index loops (Fig. 114); then with the right thumb and index lift the lowest (the original) left thumb loop