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1. Position 1.
2. Remove loop from right hand, twist it a half-turn away from you, and replace on right hand in Position 1. You should now have Postion 1, but with the strings crossed in the middle.
3. With middle fingers, pick up palmar strings of opposite hand as in Opening A.
4. Insert thumbs into middle finger loops from above. Pick up far middle finger strings and return. Release middle fingers.
5. Release little fingers.
[Jayne 1906] provides no illustration for this figure, explaining that it comes out like her figure "A Thumb Catch". She claims the method is different, but the steps in Dr. Gordon's field notes differ from "A Thumb Catch" only in trivial ways.
Before I learned of Dr. Gordon's field notes, I took Jayne at her word about the method being different, and worked out the two reconstructions below. The result is so simple that there are probably numerous ways to make it.
Here's one reconstruction:
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.
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