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CHAPTER VI

FIGURES WHICH DO NOT BEGIN WITH OPENING A—A BOW—LIGHTNING—A BUTTERFLY—A WORLD—TWIN STARS—A LIZARD—LITTLE FISHES—STORM CLOUDS—ONE HOGAN—AN APACHE TEEPEE—TALLOW DIPS—ONE CHIEF—CAROLINE ISLANDS DIAMONDS—A TURTLE—TEN TIMES.

A BOW

THIS is another of the Navaho figures shown to me by the same two Navaho girls, at the St. Louis Exposition, in November, x9o4. The native name is Atl-ti=a Bow.

First: Hold the string between the tips of the thumb and index of each hand, so that a short piece passes between the hands and a long loop hangs down. Make

a small ring, hanging down, in the short string, putting the right hand string away from you over the left hand string (Fig. 478). Insert the index fingers into the ring downward and toward you (Fig. 479), and, putting the thumbs away from you into the long hanging loop (Fig. 48o), separate the hands; and, turning the index fingers

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