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String figures and how to make them : a study of cat's-cradle in many lands / by Caroline Furness Jayne ; with an ethnological introduction by Alfred C. Haddon.
LIBRA QA95 .J42 1962
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jayne, Caroline Furness, 1873-1909.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- String figures.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover, 1962.
- Summary:
- Fullest, clearest instruction on string figures from around the world: Eskimo, Navajo, Lapp, European, more. Cat's cradle, moving spear, lightning, stars. 950 illustrations.
- Notes:
- "This new Dover edition, first published in 1962, is an unabridged republication of the work first published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1906 under the former title: String figures"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-398) and index.
- ISBN:
- 048620152X
- OCLC:
- 1162284
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