Index:String Figures and How to Make Them.djvu

Title	String Figures and How to Make Them
Author	Caroline Furness Jayne
Year	1962
Publisher	Dover
Location	New York
Source	djvu
Progress	To be proofread
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CONTENTS

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Introduction. By Dr. Alfred C. Haddon	xi
CHAPTER I
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—Nomenclature Adopted—Typical Movements Described—Explanation of the Descriptions and the Drawings.	i
CHAPTER II
Opening Movements, Known as First Position 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	10
CHAPTER III
Figures Beginning with Opening A (Continued)—Many Stars—An Owl—A Second Owl—A Third Owl—Seven Stars—Two-Horned Star—Two Coyotes—Big Star—North Star—Carrying Wood—Owt's Net—Two Elks—A Rabbit—The Sun	48
CHAPTER IV
Figures Beginning with Opening A (Continued)—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 Porcupine	85
CHAPTER V
Figures Beginning with Opening A (Continued)—A Caroline Islands Catch—Circles and Triangles—Ten Men—A Variation of Ten Men—Caroline Islands Triangles—Carrying Money—House of the Bios-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.	142
CHAPTER VI
Figures which Do Not Begin with Opening A—A Bow—Lightning—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 Turtle—Ten Times	212
CHAPTER VII
Figures which Do Not Begin with Opening A (Continued)—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-Nest—Two Boys Fighting for an Arrow—Flint and Steel—The Real Cat's-Cradle	276
CHAPTER VIII
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	337
CHAPTER IX
A Few Eskimo and Indian Games from Alaska—Figures Known only from the Finished Patterns—Nauru Figures—Eskimo Figures—Hawaiian Figures—A Zufii Figure—Australian Figures .	358
CHAPTER X
Geographical Distribution of String Figures—A Few Invented Figures—The Scarab—The Lozenge—The Square—Variation of Coral—Two Dolphins—Variation of the Crab—Second Variation of Ten Men	386
Bibliogrpahy.	396
Index	399

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Lightning"	Frontispiece
	FACING PAGE
Lena Smith, a Jicarilla Apache	12
Pasi, a Mamoose, or Chief, of Dauar, Torres Straits	13
Charles Michelle, an Osage Indian of Pawhuska, Oklahoma	24
Waria, a Mamoose, or Chief, of Mabuiag, Torres Straits	25
Zah Tso, an Arizona Navaho of Gallup, New Mexico	54
Two Natives of Murray Island, Torres Straits	55
Stone Money of Uap, Western Caroline Islands	160
Dakofel, a Uap Girl	161
Lemet, a Uap Woman	176
A Native of Port Moresby, New Guinea	177
Darcia Tafoya, a Jicarilla Apache	246
Uap Children Playing "The Turtle"	247
Ottobang, a Cannibal Pygmy, Kasai Valley, Congo, Africa	276
Chief Zaroff, an Alaskan Eskimo	277
Two Uap Boys	320
Two Natives of Murray Island, Torres Straits	321