CHAPTER VII
FIGURES WHICH DO NOT BEGIN WITH OPENING A (CONTINITED)—PYGMY DIAMONDS—A MOUTH—TWO LITTLE BOYS RUNNING AWAY—A LITTLE FISH THAT HIDES IN THE MUD—A LITTLE BOY CARRYING WOOD—A SECOND WORM—A BRUSH HOUSE—A SIX-POINTED STAR—TE BREASTBONE AND RIBS—A BIRD'S NEST—TWO BOYS FIGHTING FOR AN ARROW—FLINT AND STEEL—THE REAL CAT'S-CRADLE.
PYGMY DIAMONDS
AMONG the African Batwa Pygmies, from the Congo Kasai Valley, at the St. Louis Exposition, was a bright little man, "Ottobang," who taught me this figure.
First: Put both hands through the loop of string, up to the wrists, and take up between the thumb and index of each hand a short piece of the upper wrist string. Then make a small hanging ring in this string, by passing the string held by the right
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Fig. 632.
hand toward you over the left hand string (Fig. 632). Turn this ring up,. and put first the fight thumb (Fig. 633 ) and then the left thumb (Fig. 634 ) away from you into the ring, and separate the hands (Fig. 635).
Second: Get another person to take between the thumb and index the cross formed in the centre of the figure by the far thumb and near wrist strings, and
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