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Sign Up. Reset Password. Username or E-mail. Get new password. Shopping cart. We use cookies to improve your browsing experience and analyze site traffic. By using this website, you agree to the use of cookies. Illustrated by Robin Michel. Volume 1. Volume 2. String Figures - Google Links. String Figures: Internet Links. Extensive bibliography and Internet WWW links. String Figures - Open Directory - Links. String Figures - Mathematics and the Liberal Arts. A variety of informative essays and conjectures.

String Figures for Learning Hands. Canberra, Homa Press, String Figures Store Books, videotapes, storytelling, supplies, art.

Dave Titus, Lawton, Oklahoma. Edited by John Klacsmann and Andrew Lamert. Photography by Jason Fulford. Artitst: Harry Smith. Volume two of The Collections of Harry Smith focuses on Smith's erudite study of string figures, an age-old form of spiritual and recreational play that he passionately chronicled in multiple mediums.

This immersive volume contains photographs of the extant mounted string figures created by Smith alongside interviews, film stills and selections from his unpublished anthropological research. Additional contextual materials include an introductory essay and a conversation between musician, photographer and filmmaker John Cohen, a longtime colleague of Smith, and painter Terry Winters.

National Book Trust, String Games. By Richard Darsie. New York, Sterling Pub. Sources, index, 96 pages. Cambridge, Massachusetts, H. Includes colored string. Interesting layout, nice presentations of seven cultural groups, and attractive color photographs of children from around the world doing the string figures. A special hardcover spiral bound book. Review of string figure websites in Links, bibliography, resources, quotes and notes. Mike is a string figures researcher and performer from Red Bluff, California.

New York, William Morrow, String - Cotton, Cloth. String - Jute. String - Leather. String - Macrame Cord. String - String Figures. By Belinda Holbrook. Worthington, Ohio, Linworth Publishing Inc. Bibliography, index, pages. Best Buy at the String Store. String Vibrations. Super String Games. Many interesting new string figures in this fine book. Martin Probert. Instructions plus photographs. Playing with the string, making figures, string games, all called Kai Kai.

I did this regularly in classrooms at West Street School from Dave Titus Mr. Titus is a Christian missionary, storyteller, and string artist. Haddon Collection. Goranson, 22K. New York, Sterling Publishing Co. By Eric Lee. Important Resource! Presented by Richard Darsie. Instructions for elementary, intermediate and advanced string figures. Notes on families of string figures. Detailed written instructions and an illustration of the final form of each figure are given. This has been a very influential website.

Yahoo Groups: String Figures. Some nice prizes, some music, some library book promotion. I did this a many libraries and schools from Yahoo Hobbies - String Figures - Links. Return to the Main Index for this Webpage. I would weave patterns with the string as I sat by the ocean or by a mountain stream.

I played string games with the children and with the adults who took great delight in remembering what was once forgotten. That is when the magic started to happen and I knew without a doubt that the gift I was given was significant. String figures were not just a child's game but the tool of a shaman. A tool for influencing relationships within the self, with others and with the environment.

A tool for restoring harmony. They had been placed in the hands of the children so they would not be forgotten. The spirit of the string figures had come to me so that I could retell a story; perhaps a story about children and shamans in a playful conspiracy. Most people think of string figures as "just a child's game" In it's simple form it is just that - a game. But on other levels one discovers what has been hidden from view.

It is my speculation that the game of string figures was the game of the shaman. A game where small changes were made in the pattern of string.

Small changes that brought about outward manifestations of new learning, healing and creation. This lens will help you discover The Shamans Game of String Figures and will give you the secrets on how to use this game for Teaching, Healing and Creating. Haddon has pointed out, the familiar game of cat's-cradle probably had its origin in Asia whence it was introduced into Europe; it has also spread to some extent among the Asiatic islands.

It is apparently unknown in Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and to the Amerinds. We have not be able to find any record of the time or manner of its introduction into England, but this must have happened within comparatively recent years as there are no references to it in the older literature. Moreover, no satisfactory explanation of the name "cat's-cradle" has ever been given; its other name "cratch-cradle," may refer to the two important stages of the game: the "manger" a cratch and the "cradle.

It reinforces their learning as well as spreads the new figure quickly throughout the school. My class also organizes lessons to teach other classes about string figures. Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful.

Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there. Some even kept the string pattern itself, fastened to a piece of paper. But once a string figure is finished, it is almost impossible to tell just how it was made. We can learn and teach each other string figures today because, in , two anthropologists, Dr.

Haddon and Dr. Rivers, invented a special language to describe the way string figures are made. Haddon and Rivers developed their special language to record all the steps it took to make the string figures they learned in the Torres Straights.

Then, other anthropologists used this same language, or a simpler version of it, when they wanted to remember the string figures they saw in their travels. Allan Watts once told an audience that an old Irish fisherman said, "A net is holes tied together with string.

Digital String Games by John Fairclough. The myriad creatures, the grasses and trees are soft and fragile when alive dry and withered when dead. Therefore, it is said: The rigid person is a disciple of death; The soft, supple, and delicate are lovers of life.

Mair, Garofalo's comprehensive page of string links. The Best on the Web! Many cultures have developed casting tools using shells, seeds, stones, sticks or bones. In the Hawaiian language Kaula means rope, cord, string. A similar word Kaula Kane spoken with a different intonation means prophet, seer and Kaula Wahine means prophetess or priestess.

Whether used for divination or for the development of creativity or imagination, the Kaula is a tool for accessing inner knowledge and Divine Inspiration. This lens will ask you to Suspend Disbelief and explore the possibilities that the string can be used by Seers to explore the answers hidden within. You learn to think when you make these. Where did you learn them? All the people know about them. Spider Woman taught us. We do not. He nods with satisfaction and makes another figure; he holds it up to us, and we shake our heads.

There, shivering in the night wind, we watch him carefully hold the string figure above his head and point beyond it with pursed lips to the Pleiades. We need to have ways of thinking, of keeping things stable, healthy, beautiful. We try for a long life, but lots of things can happen to us.

So we keep our thinking in order by these figures and we keep our lives in order with the stories. We have to relate our lives to the stars and the sun, the animals, and to all of nature or else we will go crazy, or get sick. The occurrence of string figure making among such widely separated peoples led several writers to suggest an ancient origin. But the earliest evidence of string figure making that has come to light is in a Greek document of the 4th century AD.

We content ourselves in Part I with a tentative suggestion as to the most remote date at which string figure making might reasonably have been practised. The requirements are that the peoples living at such a time are known to have handled some sort of string-like material, were engaged in some sort of sophisticated manipulation of it, and made loops of it.

The practice of making a loop out of string-like material can be dated to the Upper Palaeolithic late Old Stone Age, , BC for the beads of necklaces if not the loop itself have survived in graves of the period. Hunter-gatherers, moving from place to place, needed to travel light and, besides the clothes they wore and such ornamentation as bracelet and necklace, carried nothing but hunting tools.

When they came to a resting place, having none of the artefacts of settled farming peoples with which to busy themselves and otherwise spend their time, the adults may have used a necklace or a loop of string or sinew to occupy their hands or to amuse a child.

There is evidence that from the Upper Palaeolithic onwards an active manipulation of string-like materials was taking place. Hair-nets have been found in burials of the time suggesting that fishing nets, of which the earliest found date from the Mesolithic, may also have originated in the Upper Palaeolithic. The strings at the intersections of the meshes were either twisted or knotted together: when knotted, the knot was of the simple variety.

The earliest known description of a string figure occurs in a collection of excerpts from earlier writers by the Greek medical writer Oribasius c.

A description of what we now call a string figure appears to be taken from the works of the writer Heraklas. The text explains that the figure is useful as a binding to put around and straighten a fractured chin. But with modern humans, 35, years ago, we have representational art, which gives clear of evidence for knots and weaving. Some of the oldest art clearly shows that weaving and knotting were part of everyday life. One theory of the evolution of language holds that it co-evolved with basic cognitive skills unique to humans: self-awareness and "explanation.

Knots and weaves would have been used for clothing, nets, containers, shelters, affixing tools and assembling boats. Knots would necessarily be learned from one person to another.

It doesn't take much imagination to imagine scenarios where mnemonics associated with learning were tied literally to representational schemes and associated games. Repetitive hand motions have been physically linked to higher level reasoning and memory, and since knotted strings produce a physical artifact, the association of cognitive deep structure with string manipulation seems logical.

Our proposed study will assume such a linkage without absolute proof. We will then explore what advantages knotting might afford as interface to new artificial spaces, what specific techniques and manipulations might be tied to certain associations, and what the implications for "evolving" new languages may be. The Japanese call these string tricks Ayatori. Any kind of string can be used but there is an advantage to purchasing certain types. One needs a length of string about six feet long.

One can simply tie the ends together but the knot can prove to be a nuisance; therefore, a synthetic material, such as nylon, with a slight roughness is preferable. One can then heat a soldering gun to melt the ends of the string and the two ends are joined to make a continuous loop. Stories of Grandmother spider spinning net-like webs and studies of alignments, navigational star charts and grids form our understanding of the interrelationship between myth, art, science and mathematics.

Early man looked to nature in developing his knowledge of the world about him. The natural world is the canvas for straight and curved lines. The navigators were well aware of the straight line of the horizon.

The makers of containers were observers of the curved lines of the moon. The human body also reflects the proportions used in measurement. Trinket, if you're interested lets you run and write code in any browser, on any device. Trinkets work instantly, with no need to log in, download plugins, or install software.

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