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have been holding, and let the figure hang on the thumbs (Fig. 188). Then put the four fingers of each hand toward you into the ring-like loops held by the thumb

remove the thumb; close the middle, ring and little fingers on the palm, and separate the hands (Fig. 189).

There are few string figures in which the final pattern is extended in such a simple manner as in this one.

A CRAB

Dr. Haddon obtained the "Crab" at Saguane, Kiwai Island, near the mouth of the Fly River, British New Guinea, where it is known as Kokowa, = a Crab. (See Rivers and Haddon, p. 151, Fig. 8.)

First: Go through the movements necessary to form "The Well."

Second: Turn the palms toward you and slightly upward, and slacken a little the strings held down by the little fingers; then insert each little finger from below into the thumb loop, bend it over the near thumb string, and take the loop off the thumb (Fig. 190, Right hand), and hold it down together with the two lower strings