THE CIRCLE
Dr. Boas has described and illustrated (1, p. 230 , Fig. 5) a game known to the Eskimos of Cumberland Sound, Baffin Land, as Ussuqdjung. I have called it the "Circle."
First: Put the loop on the hands in the First Position.
Second: Pass the right index, middle, ring and little fingers from below, behind the left palmar string, and
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draw the loop out. Pass the left index, middle, ring and little fingers, from below, behind the right palmar strings; draw the loop out and separate the hands. This movement, which is like Opening A, puts each palmar string on the back of the opposite hand (Fig. 28i).
Third: Release the loops from the thumbs and separate the hands.
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Fourth: Bend each .thumb over the string which passes between the hands and then between the thumb and index of each hand, and pick up from below, on the back of the thumb, the near little finger string (Fig. 282), and return the thumb to its position.