Imagine your little finger now as a child. The child has a singular purpose when it is young-to relate.
It relates completely to people and land.
This puts children at the centre of family and society, the ones who make relationships happen, trying everything together in a kinship system.
So this finger represents kinship-mind - a way of thinking and learning that depends on linking knowledge to relationships with people and with places.

“Emotional maturity, we are just beginning to glimpse, may mean capacity to feel truly, in relation to the facts of our world, the feelings of others; and also to create in our responses to others a relationship of “feeling together” which is something different from and better than single individuals could experience alone. So little do we know about this that we have scarcely any vocabulary to talk about it. But something like this is at the basis, we are sure, of acting together, for out of common feeling much more than from shared intellectual concepts comes the capacity to cooperate for valued ends.”