AN ARROW
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This very pretty figure was shown to me by the two girls from whom I learned the other Navaho figures, at the St. Louis Exposition, in November, 1904. The native name is Ka= an Arrow.
First: Opening A. (The left palmar string must be taken up first.)
Second: The same as the Second movement of "Casting the Fish-Spear."
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Third: Pass the right thumb away from you over the right far thumb string and under all the other strings, and, as you begin to return the thumb, catch on its
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back the right far little finger string, and draw it back under the right near little finger string and the strings of the right index loop (Fig. 294 , Right hand).
Fourth: With the teeth pick up from the right thumb this right far little finger string, which you have just drawn toward you, remove the right thumb (Fig. 295),