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" Boys must not play cat's-cradle, because in later life their fingers might become entangled in the harpoon-line. They are allowed to play this game when they become adults. Two cases were told of hunters who lost their fingers, in which the cause was... "
String Figures: A Study of Cat's-cradle in Many Lands - Página xvi
por Caroline Furness Jayne - 1906 - 407 páginas
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The Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay: From Notes Collected by ..., Volumen1

Franz Boas - 1901 - 388 páginas
...future when hunting. After this, the mother is allowed to trim her clothing with white and black edging. Boys must not play cat's-cradle, because in later...liable to lose their fingers in hunting ground-seal. Adolescent girls must not eat eggs. Graves are generally made of stone, but sometimes the body is only...
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Volumen15

American Museum of Natural History - 1907 - 630 páginas
...future when hunting. After this, the mother is allowed to trim her clothing with white and black edging. Boys must not play cat's-cradle, because in later...liable to lose their fingers in hunting ground-seal. Adolescent girls must not eat eggs. Graves are generally made of stone, but sometimes the body is only...
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Journal of American Folklore

1924 - 426 páginas
...the same authority states 2 that on the west coast of Hudson Bay "boys must not play cat's cradle, because in later life their fingers might become entangled...which the cause was believed to be their having played cat's cradle when young. Such youths are thought to be particularly liable to lose their fingers in...
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Journal of American Folklore

1924 - 440 páginas
...the same authority states 1 that on the west coast of Hudson Bay "boys must not play cat's cradle, because in later life their fingers might become entangled...which the cause was believed to be their having played cat's cradle when young. Such youths are thought to be particularly liable to lose their fingers in...
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String Figures and how to Make Them: A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands

Caroline F. Jayne - 1962 - 476 páginas
...figures ; of these he gives 3 illustrations, Tuktuk (Reindeer), Amau (Wolf), and Kakbik (Pig). Andree very truly points out that there is no pig in this...particularly liable to lose their fingers in hunting ground -seal " (p. 161). According to Murdoch (p. 383), "the [Point Barrow] women are very fond of...
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