String figures and how to make them : a study of cat's cradle in many lands
Caroline Furness Jayne, Alfred C. Haddon (Writer of introduction)
Provides illustrations and instructions that describe how to make approximately 107 string figures, such as the cat's cradle and Jacob's ladder, and includes information about the origin of each.form
407 pages illustrations 22 cm
9780486201528, 9780844623184, 048620152X, 0844623180
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Distribution of string figures
Native names
Methods first recorded
ethnological value of string games
Relations of finished patterns made by different races
relations of native methods
How string figures are made
Different openings
Nomenclautre adopted
Typical movements described
Explanation of the descriptions and the drawings
Opening movements, known as first postion and opening A
Figures beginning with opening A
An Apache door
Fighting head-hunters
A sunset
Osage diamonds
Osage two diamonds
Dressing a skin
A fish-spear
A sea-snake
A kingfish
Bagobo diamonds
Bagobo two diamonds
Figures beginning with opening A
Many stars
An owl
A second owl
A third owl
Seven stars
Two-horned star
Two coyotes
Big star
North star
Carrying wood
Owl's net
Two elks
A rabbit
The sun
Figures beginning with Opening A
A well
Fence around a well
A crab
A trigger fish
Rattlesnake and a boy
Two skunks
Two foxes
Two squirrels
Leashing of Lochiel's dogs
Two hogans
A cariboo
A circle
Two stars
Casting the fish-spear
An arrow
A procupine
Figures beginning with opening A
A caroline Islands catch
Circles and triangles
Ten men
A variation of ten men
Caroline Islands triangles
Carrying money
House of the Blos-Bird
Three stars
No name
Coral
A man
Two chiefs
A man and a bed
A palm tree
A canoe with two masts
A house
Figures beginning with a modification of opening A -W-M
Figures which do not begin with opening A
A bow
Lihtning
A butterfly
A worm
Twin stars
A lizard
Little fishes
Storm clouds
One hogan
An Apache teepee
Tallow dips
One chief
Caroline Islands diamonds
A turle
Ten times
Figures which do not begin with opening A
Pigmy diamonds
A mouth
Two little boys running away
A little fish that hides in the mud
A little boy carrying wood
A second worm
A brush house
A six-pointed star
The breastbone and ribs
A bird's next
Two boys fighting for an arrow
Flint and steel
The real cat's cradle
Tricks and catches
A torres straits lizard
Hanging
The mouse
A dravidian trick
A finger catch
A fly on the nose
A thumb catch
Will you have a yam?
Threading a closed loop
A saw mill
A few Eskimo and Indian games from Alaska
Figures known only from the finished patterns
Nauru figures
Eskimo figures
Hawaiian figures
A Zuni figure
Australian figures
Geographical distribution of string figures
A few invented figures
The Scarab
The lozenge
The aquare
Variation of coral
Two dolphins
Variation of the crab
Second variatiom of ten men
"An unabridged republication of the work first published ... in 1906 under the former title: String figures."