Earrings

Collected by George Byron Gordon from the Yup'ik people of Mamtrelich, a small village near the mouth of the Kuskokwim River in southwest Alaska. Eskimo (Inuit) women traditionally wore dangling earrings that were made of carved bone or ivory.

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Step-by-Step Video Clips		Written Instructions
1  2  3  4  5  6  all © 2010 ISFA. All rights reserved.		Step 4 - 1 passes away from you through the 45 loop (1 enters from the distal or "fingertip" side), then 1 passes toward you through the 2 loop (again 1 enters from the distal or "fingertip" side); 1 returns with 45n and 2f as 2 releases its loop. You now have three loops on 1, the upper two being small and tight.