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STRING FIGURES

TWO SKUNKS

Mr. John L. Cox was taught the "Two Skunks" by the Klamath girl, Emma Jackson. First: The first nine movements are the same as the first nine movements of the "Rattlesnake and a Boy."

Tenth: Pass the thumbs away from you under the figure ' and then up on the near side of the two straight transverse strings (Fig. 243), and pull these strings down

on the ball of each thumb and then up toward you on the back of the thumbs (Fig. 244 ). Eleventh: Pass each index (with its loop well up at the tip of the finger) from below, into the thumb loop (Fig. 245); withdraw the thumb and pick up from

below on the back of the thumb the original index loop (Fig. 246) and withdraw the index from all the loops. Now transfer the thumb loop back to the index by

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