LLX > Neil Parker > String Figures > Jayne
[Jayne 1906] provides no illustration for this figure, explaining that it comes out like her figure "Osage Thumb Catch", but is made by a different method. The final result is so simple that it could be made by any of numerous methods, and the only clue Jayne gives us about which one is correct is the deduction (by process of elimination) that it probably begins with Opening A.
Here's one way to do it:
1. Opening A.
2. Bend ring fingers away from you and down into little finger loop, and then toward you and up into thumb loop. Release thumbs, catching thumb loops on ring fingers, and return back through little finger loop carrying former thumb loops.
3. Again, bend ring fingers away from you and down into little finger loop. Release little fingers, catching little finger loops on ring fingers. Keep ring fingers pointed down.
4. Insert thumb into index loops from above, and then into ring finger loops from below (distally). Pick up near ring finger strings, and return through index loops.
5. Release ring and index fingers.
Another method:
1. Opening A.
2. Pass little fingers forward over index loops, and insert from above into thumb loops. Pick up near thumb strings and return. Release thumbs.
3. Insert thumbs into index loops from below, and then into little finger loops from below. Pick up near little finger strings, and return through index loops.
4. Release little fingers and indexes.
The first method above starts out with the same first three steps as [Jenness 1924]'s figure XVI ("The Little Finger"), method 1. This gives it some geographic plausibility (the Tananas live in central Alaska, near locations where Jenness documented his figure XVI).
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