A Doca

Collected by Odina Sturzenegger from Los Tobas Indians of El Colchón, Chaco, Argentina. The design represents the unripe fruit of the milkweed vine (Morrenia odorata), which the Indians eat either raw or cooked. The green oval fruit is bisected on one side by a deep crevice, which is represented in the string figure by six parallel lines.

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Written Instructions

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Step 2 - Bring hands together; R1 and R2, through L2 loop from above, grasp the L palmar string, draw it out a short distance, and release it over L1 to form an upper loop.

With the help of the R hand Navajo the loops on L1 (lift the lower loop over the upper loop and release it on the far side of L1).