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STRING FIGURES
and each thumb away from you over the far thumb string (Fig. 7oo), and, holding these strings down, you let the other strings slip off the thumbs and index fingers.
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Now turn the hands with the palms down, and separate the thumbs widely from the index fingers, and the "Brush House" is formed (Fig. 701).
This is a very pretty figure and many of the movements are novel; the Sixth is of particular interest because it is just the reverse of the usual "Navaho movement," the thumb and index loops being drawn through the loop common to both thumb and index.
