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    A string figure is a design formed by manipulating string on, around, and using one's fingers or sometimes between the fingers of multiple people. String...
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  • The International String Figure Association is not-for-profit organization for the preservation, dissemination, and creation of string figures. The association...
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  • The following is a list of string figures, various figures which can be made using a loop of string, and which occur in games such as cat's cradle. Most...
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    figure Cat's Cradle (above). After each figure, the next player manipulates that figure and removes the string figure from the hands of the previous player...
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    Polynesian constellation Heiheionakeiki which represents a child's string figure similar to a cat's cradle. Several precolonial Filipinos referred to...
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    S2CID 21340612 Miller, Lawrence G. (1945), "The Earliest (?) Description of a String Figure", American Anthropologist, New Series, 47 (3): 461–462, doi:10.1525/aa...
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  • Mark Sherman (collector) (category String figures)
    biochemist (PhD) and prominent string figure enthusiast. His editing and writing led to the publishing of Kwakiutl String Figures by Julia Averkieva, "the...
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  • surface in mathematics Jacobs's ladder, the European name for a solo string figure Crepuscular rays or Jacob's Ladder, rays of sunlight that appear to...
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    A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than...
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    and hired him to score Double Indemnity. Wilder suggested a restless string figure to reflect the conspiratorial activities of Walter and Phyllis. He had...
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    been valuable to modern scholars. The earliest known description of a string figure, presented as the surgical sling Plinthios Brokhos by Greek physician...
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    String is a long flexible tool made from fibers twisted together into a single strand, or from multiple such strands which are in turn twisted together...
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    on 25 December 2022. "Stringed Figure: Bowl". henry-moore.org. Archived from the original on 24 December 2022. "Stringed Figure". henry-moore.org. Archived...
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  • Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86135-768-1. with Stephan Claassen: The Wampar String Figure Repertoire in Comparative Perspective. Social Change and Interethnic...
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    Barre Toelken describes an evening spent in a Navaho family playing string figure games, with each of the members shifting from performer to audience...
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    katakata, 源内の不思議なカタカタ).[citation needed] Chinese block Jacob's ladder (string figure) Rhombille tiling Rubik's Cube Frauenfelder, Mark (2011). Make: Technology...
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  • Islanders hold that the Ebu Gogo remained alive 400 years ago). An Inuit string figure representing a large creature is identified with the extinct woolly...
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    America Braid – Structure of strands of flexible material Cat's cradle – String figure game Child harness – Safety device worn by children Chinese knotting –...
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  • shooting and has been reflected in the movies many time. He's also good at string figure which is sometimes considered a girl's game. Son of Tamako and Nobisuke...
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    which the string is threaded. One can distinguish three subgroups of wire-and-string puzzles: Closed string subgroup: The pieces of string consist of...
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  • Julia Averkieva (category String figures)
    Петро́ва; July 24, 1907 – October 9, 1980) was a Soviet anthropologist and string figure collector. A student of Franz Boas, and influenced by Lewis Henry Morgan...
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    Croatian interlace Interlace Music Origami Mathematics Sculpture String art String figure Tiling Artworks List of works designed with the golden ratio Continuum...
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    daughters, the pioneers in the modern study of Torres Strait string figures A string figure bibliography including examples from Torres Strait. Whitford...
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    Rope (data structure) (category String data structures)
    the whole string into two parts: the left subtree stores the first part of the string, the right subtree stores the second part of the string, and a node's...
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    Heraklas (category String figures)
    knots and slings, including the earliest known written account of a string figure. Accompanying illustrations of the knots were added later by Renaissance...
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    with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World...
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  • Association Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association International String Figure Association International Shootfighting Association Iranian Short Film...
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    The string section of an orchestra is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family. It normally consists of first and second violins, violas...
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  • D minor, is in sonata form. The exposition opens with a "strenuous" string figure in canon of rising and falling minor sixths that quickly narrow to minor...
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    String figure like designed tourism pedestrian Ayatori hashi (ja:あやとり橋) in Yamanaka Onsen, Kaga, Ishikawa, Japan, 1991...
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