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By Hook or By Book An excerpt from a murder mystery novel by D. R. Meredith. The victim is murdered by one of several string figure enthusiasts, over a newly-found manuscript by Caroline F. Jayne. http://www.femmesfatalesauthors.com/drm-chap.htm (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It International String Figure Association The ISFA works to gather, preserve, and distribute string figure knowledge for future generations to enjoy this ancient pastime. They have a list of publications, an invitation to become a member, a mailing list, and links to related web sites. Of particular interest are the detailed instructions for making figures collected in 1924 by Diamond Jenness in the Canadian Arctic. http://www.isfa.org/isfa.htm (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Me Human, You Alien How to talk to an extraterrestrial, using a handful of coins, a loop of string, a flashlight, and two magnets. This is an excerpt from a book entitled "The Handbook of UFO Contact" by Jonathan Vos Post. http://www.magicdragon.com/EmeraldCity/extraterrestrials/alien1.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Rain Forest String Figures From Guyana Photographs taken on a canoe trip along the upper Essequibo River in extreme southern Guyana. Some of the Wai Wai and Wapishana guides and boatmen demonstrated a few string figures for the author. http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/1414/guy.htm (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It String Figures Illustrated instructions for making the "Jacob's Ladder" (animated), "Two Mountains and a Stream" and "Walking Sticks" figures. http://home.eznet.net/~stevemd/stringar.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It String Figures Brian Cox, the Incredible Stringman, tells a story called "Going Fishing" illustrated with string figures. Photos and text of his performance. http://www.whimsical-workshop.mb.ca/string.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It String Figures Britt Scharringhausen's instructions for making several figures, collected from around the world, and a glossary of terms used to describe the steps. http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~brs/strfigs/ (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It String Figures and Shamanism An essay by Lois Stokes, with speculations on the role of string figures in Hawaiian culture. http://www.huna.org/html/string.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It String Figures Depict the Universe An excerpt of two illustrations from "Artists in String" by Kathleen Haddon; a book showing how different cultures express information using a loop of string. http://www.adh.bton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/LVLString.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It String Games Illustrated instructions for making the Butterfly string figure. [HTML and PDF versions] http://www.lafete.org/new/a_c/e_fac/ac_021/acE_021E.htm (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Strings On Your Fingers Michael P. Garofalo does presentations on string figures art, and performances of string figures, catches, and tricks in Northern California and Southern Oregon. His site has a recommended reading list and bibliography for string figures. http://www.gardendigest.com/string/index.htm (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It The Mathematics and Origin of String Figures Trivial knot theory, history, and a few new designs by the author, Martin Probert. http://website.lineone.net/~m.p/sf/menu.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It World Wide Webs - String Figures from Around the World Richard Darsie's instructions (with photographs) for making a wide variety of string figures popular with native cultures throughout the world, organized by "families" and rated according to difficulty. He provides bibliographical references to sources. http://www.darsie.net/string/ (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It WWW Collection of Favorite String Figures Instructions using string figure notation and prose descriptions, along with diagrams and some video clips. Features twelve beginner-level figures, followed by others of increasing difficulty, and a directory of performers. http://www.alysion.org/string.htm (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Yahoo! Groups Stringfigures Registered members of this group are interested in describing and illustrating string figures for publication on the web at WWW Collection of Favorite String Figures. They are also developing a system of string figure notation (SFN). http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/ (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It

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