The Art Of String Figures

Author : International String Figure Association
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486835510
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of String Figures written by International String Figure Association and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in tribal customs and cultural traditions from around the world, making string figures is an ancient pastime that continues to charm people of all ages. This compilation of projects from String Figure Magazine presents easy-to-follow photographs and simple, step-by-step directions for creating more than two dozen captivating string figures that can jump, flip, and perform other tricks. In addition to basic instructions on how to get started, this guide features brief accounts of each figure's historical background. They include "Kidnapped Baby" and "Broken Home, Mended Home" from Hawaii, "A Flock of Birds" and "Old Man Chewing" from the Solomon Islands, and the Australian "Setting Sun." From the Congo come "Leopard's Mouth," "Rubber Band" from Tibet, and from India, "Scissors." Other figures spotlight the traditions of North America's Navajo and Kwakiutl peoples and natives of Brazil, Guyana, and Argentina. A great travel pastime and on-the-go activity, making string figures is a delightful, inexpensive, and easily acquired hobby.

Author : Caroline Furness Jayne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781104845780
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book String Figures and How to Make Them written by Caroline Furness Jayne and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Caroline (Furness) Jayne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258918958
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book String Figures and How to Make Them written by Caroline (Furness) Jayne and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1962 edition.

Author : Caroline Furness Jayne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331922407
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book String Figures written by Caroline Furness Jayne and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from String Figures: A Study of Cat's-Cradle in Many Lands This book may be regarded as an introduction to the study of String Figures - games which are widespread among primitive peoples, and played by weaving on the hands a single loop of string in order to produce intricate patterns supposed to represent certain familiar objects. I have gathered together the facts already known concerning these games, and, adding my own studies and the unpublished records of other observers, I have here described and illustrated the methods whereby about one hundred string figures are made. My purpose has been twofold: to interest other students in the subject, in order that additional figures and their methods may be collected among various tribes and races; and to reach a still larger public, that more people may share in the fascinations of the games themselves. The games are certainly fascinating, appealing as they do to young and to old, and to those debarred from all pastimes demanding physical exertion. Moreover, they are not unduly difficuAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Kathleen Haddon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artists in String written by Kathleen Haddon and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes chapter on Australian Aboriginal string figures from Cape York.

Author : Honor C. Maude
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820201484
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The String Figures of Nauru Island written by Honor C. Maude and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains instructions for making and information about string figures of Nauru Island. Is a "definitive work on Nauruan ekadawa as well as commentary on Nauru's history and society."

Author : Julia P. Averkieva
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774804325
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kwakiutl String Figures written by Julia P. Averkieva and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the games people play, string figures afford nearly universal amusement, appearing in more cultures than any other. But although over 2,000 individual patterns have been recorded world-wide since 1888, when anthropologist Franz Boas first described a pair of Eskimo "cat's cradles," very few studies have explored North American Indian string figures. This intriguing volume publishes for the first time 102 string figures and 10 string tricks collected among the Kwakiutl Indians by Julia Averkieva, a young visiting Soviet scholar who accompanied Boas on his 1930 expedition to Vancouver Island. When she returned to Leningrad, Averkieva left her unpublished monograph with Boas, whose heirs eventually sent it to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Averkieva's study represents the most comprehensive Native American string collection ever assembled from a single tribe. In addition to characterizing the social conditions that prompted string figure making among the Kwakiutl during the time of her field study, Averkieva noted step-by-step instructions for each figure and transcribed traditional accompanying chants. In editing and expanding Averkieva's manuscript, Mark Sherman addresses string figure enthusiasts as well as cultural anthropologists. Sherman includes in his introduction a complete description of basic openings and string figure moves. For each Kwakiutl figure he has prepared clear illustrations based on Averkieva's original photographs and pencil sketches. In addition he has tested each figure for workability, clarifying instructions where necessary and recasting them in Rivers and Haddon's standard terminology. Sherman's analysis of figure titles suggests that many aspects of Kwakiutl material culture and belief are preserved in string. In examining the ethnological value of the collection, he discusses the implications of observed similarities between Eskimo and Kwakiutl string figures. He also updates Averkieva's preliminary distribution data, interspersing the figure descriptions with references to related and identical figures from other cultures. Each analysis is keyed to an illustrated cross index. Kwakiutl String Figures will interest students of comparative cultures and will delight all who have time (and string) on their hands.

Author : David Novak
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477174095
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book String Figure Jack! written by David Novak and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at last is David Novak's popular retelling of the famous folktale, complete with illustrated instructions for forming his original string figures.

Author : W. W. Rouse Ball
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331592535
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book String Figures (Classic Reprint) written by W. W. Rouse Ball and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from String Figures Precision of language, which was necessary if the subject was to be treated scientifically, was introduced only in 1902. Subsequent research has strengthened the interest taken in string figures, and in anthropological expeditions to-day they are among the matters on which information is sought. In particular Haddon has continued to stimulate enquiry, and to him we owe many Of the patterns discovered. It is not too much to say that he is the creator of the science, and to his enthusiasm and knowledge many owe their introduction to it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Julia P. Averkieva
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774844590
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kwakiutl String Figures written by Julia P. Averkieva and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: