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STRING FIGURES

The figure is extended between the index fingers and the middle fingers closed on the palms (Fig. 122).

The "Two-horned Star" is a modification of "Many Stars because in the Seventh movement the lower index: loop is slipped off over the upper index loop, and in the Eighth movement the thumb loop is slipped off over the index loop.

TWO COYOTES

The Navahos, Zah Tso and her sister, taught me this game also, calling it Ma_i-at-sani-il-watli. An example (22718) in the Philadelphia Free Museum of Science and Art, from St. Michael's Mission, Arizona, is labelled Mai-i-atlsa-yill-