A Trail

Collected by Frederick W. Waugh from the Innu (Montagnais-Naskapi) people of Quebec, Canada. The zigzag design in this figure represents the tracks left behind by a person wearing snowshoes.

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Written Instructions

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Step 6 - To dissolve the figure, withdraw 2, 3, and 4 from their loops and extend sharply to give a single loop on 5.

The tracks in the snow disappear.