Two Brothers-in-Law Meeting

Collected by Julia Averkieva from the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) of Vancouver Island, Canada. This design represents two brothers-in-law who do not trust each other. They stand in opposite corners of a room.

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Step 4 - 2, from above, removes the loops on 1 that have oblique 1n strings; the single loop that remains on 1 has a transverse 1n string.