the original left index loop to the thumb by picking up from below the near index string and withdrawing the index from all its loops (Fig. 312). Transfer the left
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thumb loop to the index, by pulling the index into it from below and withdrawing the thumb.
Ninth: Release the loops from the right thumb and little finger and draw the hands apart and the porcupine is formed near the left hand (Fig. 313).
This is a very easy figure because the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth move-
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ments are the same as the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth movements of the "Two Stars," but carried out on the left hand only. The Seventh and Eighth movements are new ones.
The "Porcupine" appears to be really an Eskimo figure, and one very widely distributed; it is found in Alaska under the name of "Wolf" or "Wolverine" (p. 361), and, as a "Fox," is one of the six patterns from Smith Sound given by A. L. Kroeber in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, XII, 1899, p. 298.
