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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