"Three Stars" is one of the longest of all the figures; there is so much repetition, however, that it is really not very difficult. The Second movement is similar to the Third movement of the "House of the Bios-Bird." The Third movement is like a movement in the Torres Straits "King Fish." The Fourth and Eighth movements
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are peculiar to this figure; there are, however, analogous movements in the Caroline Islands "Coral."
The final extension of the pattern is found in a number of the Caroline Islands figures (" Three Stars," "Coral," "Two Chiefs," "One Chief," "Diamonds," "Turtle"), and in no others. It is very essential that the thumb be pressed close
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to the index, to hold in place the string which passes from the back of the thumb upward, around the tip of the index, otherwise part of the extension by means of the thumb will be lost.