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CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| 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 |
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