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66 CARRYING WOOD Dr. Haddon taught me this figure in August, 1904 He learned it in Chicago in 1901, from the two old Navaho men who showed him "Many Stars" (5, P- 221, pl. xv, Fig. 2). It is called by the Navahos, Chiz-jǒ-Yĕ-lĭ There are two examples of the finished figure in the Culin Collection of the Philadelphia Free Museum of Science and Art, one (22724) from the Navahos at St. Michael's Mission, Arizona,

is labelled Chizh-joyeli=Hacking the.Wood, the other (22605) from Zuñi, New Mexico, is called Pish-kap-po-a, pi-cho-wai-nai.

First: Opening A.

Second: Put the tips of the thumb and index of each hand together, and bind these fingers away from you over the far index string, and pick up from below

the near little finger string, and return the thumb and index to their usual positions (Fig. 136); then separate their tips and release the loop from the little finger. This movement transfers the little finger loop to both thumb and index (Fig. 137)

Third: Keeping all the loops carefully in place on the right hand, with the right thumb and index lift the lower loop on the left thumb up over the upper loop (the