The Woman Who Walks a Lot

Collected by Camilla Wedgwood from the people of Northern New Guinea. In this action figure a woman wearing a grass skirt walks back and forth as she completes her daily chores.

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 Step 5 - To make the woman walk to the left, loosen the left hand's grip, then repeatedly tug on R5f with the right hand so that the upper and lower frame strings flow counterclockwise as the figure is worked.

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