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STRING FIGURES

IRELAND—Continued:

Tallow Dips.
The Mouse.
The Real Cat's-cradle.

JAPAN.
The Mouse.
Threading a Closed Loop.
The Real Cat's-cradle.

KOREA.
The Real Cat's-cradle.

LOYALTY ISLANDS. Lifu
A Well, tim.
Fence Around a Well, sihnag.

MARSHALL ISLANDS. Nauru:
**Hull of a Ship, deimano.
**Egona and Egameang Sitting on a Stone.
**A Butterfly, ijewaioi.
**A Woman, Egattamma.
**Nauru Woman of Rank, Etima and Etowa.
**The Woman, Echeog and Edawaroi.
**A Sea-snake, iiyanibongo.
**A Nauru Dandy, tinamitto.
**A Lady of Quality, Egarawingo.
**A Man, ibunemun.
**A Mat (I).
**A Mat (II).
**A Mat (III).
**A Mat (IV).

NEW ZEALAND.
*A House.

PHILIPPINES.
Bagobos:
Bagobo Diamonds.
Bagobo, Two Diamonds.
The Real Cat's-cradle.

Linao Moros:
Bagobo Diamonds.
Ten Times.
Hanging.
The Mouse.
The Real Cat's-cradle.

Negritos:
Hanging.
The Mouse.

SCOTLAND.
The Leashing of Lochiel's Dogs.
Tallow Dips.

TORRES STRAITS.
Fighting Head-hunters, ares.
Sunset, lem baraigida, Murray Island.
Syn.: A Star, dogai, Mabuaig.
A Fish-spear, baur.
A Sea-snake, pagi.
Kingfish, geigi, Murray Island.
Syn.: The Dugong, dangal, Mabuiag. A Well.
Syn.: Nest of the Ti-bird, ti-meta; a Canoe, gul., Mabuiag.
A Trigger Fish, nageg.
Casting the Fish-spear.
A Man and a Bed, le-sik.
A Palm Tree, u.
A Canoe with Two Masts, nar.
Little Fishes, tup.
A Torres Straits Lizard, monan, Murray Island.
Syn.: Intestines of a Turtle, maita, Mabuiag.
The Mouse, kebe-mokeis.
Fly on the Nose, buli.
Will You Have a Yam, lewer, food.

A FEW INVENTED FIGURES—THE SCARAB

The first four movements are the same as the first four movements of the "Well." The strings in the centre of the figure cross so as to form a large X.

Fifth: Bend each thumb away from you into the former thumb loop (now hanging from the top straight string of the figure), and pick up, with the back of the thumb from the palmar side, the lower leg of the X, and pull it toward you through the hanging thumb loop.