CHAPTER VIII
TRICKS AND CATCHES—A TORRES STRAITS LIZARD—HANGING—THE mouse—A DRAVIDIAN TRICK—A FINGER CATCH—A FLY ON THE NOSE—A THUMB CATCH—WILL YOU HAVE A YAM?—THREADING A CLOSED LOOP—A SAW-MILL.
A TORRES STRAITS LIZARD
THIS trick I got from Dr. Haddon, who has published a description of it (see Rivers and Haddon, p. i52 ). In Murray Island, Torres Straits, it is known as Monan=a Lizard; in Mabuiag as Maita=Intestines of a Turtle. It was shown to Dr. Furness in the Caroline Islands by the Uap boy, who showed him "Carrying Money."
First: Hold the left hand high with the palm down and the fingers pointing away from you, and with the right hand place the loop of string over the back of the left hand, and let it hang down in front of you.
Pass the fight hand away from you through the hanging loop, with the fingers pointing downward (Fig. 759); then turn the right hand around the right hanging string, by pointing the fingers to the fight, then toward you, and finally upward (Fig. 760). Now pass the fight hand to the left, between the hanging strings and
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