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CONTENTS
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 |