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CAROLINE ISLANDS DIAMONDS
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piece make a small upright ring, by passing the part of the string near the fight hand toward you over the part near the left hand. Hold the cross of the ring

between the thumb and index of the left hand (Fig. 601). Then take between the teeth the upper part of the ring, and put both hands away from you through the long hanging loop, of course below the cross forming the bottom of the ring (Fig. 602). Now turn each hand down away from the other, then toward you around the hanging string of the same side (Fig. 603), and finally up between the hanging string and your body (but not away from you through the hanging loop) (Fig. 604); then putting the little fingers toward you into the ring held by the teeth (Fig. 605) , catch the sides of the ring in the bend of each little finger, and releasing the strings from the teeth,