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OSAGE TWO DIAMONDS

The Osage Indian who taught me the preceding game gave me this one also; he had no name for it. There is a Hawaiian example done with a single string

Fig. 51.

loop preserved in the Philadelphia Free Museum of Science and Art. It was collected by Mr. Stewart Culin, is numbered 21448 and called Pa-pi-o-ma-ka-nu-i-nu-i (see Culin, 1 pl. xiv, a).

First: Opening A, with the string doubled and used throughout as if it were a single string (Fig. 51).

Second: Release the loops from the thumbs.

Third: Pass each thumb away from you over the index loops and the near little finger strings, and take up, from below, on the back of the thumb the far little finger strings and return the thumb to its former position (Fig. 52).

Fig. 52.

Fourth: Insert each thumb from below into the index loops, close to the index, between the finger and the strings which cross the palm and return the thumb to its position (Fig. 53).

Fifth: Turn each thumb down toward the other thumb (Fig. 54, Left hand),