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REVIEW; String Games: More Than Just Child's Play - New York Times

String figures have a lengthy but murky history. They are common in tribal societies and apparently date from prehistoric times, said Mark Sherman, ...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html

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

Strings on Your Fingers: String Figures, Tricks, Catches, Designs ...

Michael P. Garofalo does presentations on string figures art, and performances of string figures, catches, and tricks in Northern California and Southern ...

http://www.gardendigest.com/string/

EXAMPLES OF STRING FIGURES

EXAMPLES OF STRING FIGURES. 14. THE SUNFLOWER. An original continuation of. ‘The Well’ – common in the. South Pacific Islands. THE BELL ...

http://www.hawthornpress.com/download/str-1/P14-17.PDF

This+That - String Figures

Learn to make string figures - Animated instructions.

http://www.frontiernet.net/~steve_glimpse/stringar.html

How to Do String Figures (with pictures) - wikiHow

wikiHow article about How to Do String Figures. ... String figures are really fun to make! Long before TV, or even books, people were using string figures ...

http://www.wikihow.com/Do-String-Figures

Powell's Books - String Figures and How to Make Them (Master ...

String figures from around the world: Eskimo, Navajo, Lapp, European, more. Cat's cradle, lightning, stars, and many others...

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio

A 3-D String Figure Display System For Animating Cat's Cradle Game ...

operated pattem of string figures. A stabilizing procedure. is in charge of the obtaining ... which uses cells for representing string figures in three- ...

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel3/4949/13628/00626169.pdf

Image:String Figures and How to Make Them.djvu - Wikimedia Commons

Possibly the first, and best-known book on string figures. (Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.) Source. Scan of the 1962 edition, ...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:String_Figures_and_How_to_Make_Them.djvu

String Figure Store

Study of string figures and products associated with those figures.

http://www.stringfigurestore.com/

String Figures - UEN

String figures are designs that you weave on your fingers with a long loop ... In some cultures, storytellers used string figures to illustrate their tales. ...

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi

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 ...

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/1414/guy.htm

String Figures Crafts, String Figures Supplies, String Figures ...

The largest directory of arts and craft related websites, shopping, and information.

http://www.craftdirectory.org/directory/links/String_Figures/index.php

The String Figures - New Acoustic Music

The String Figures - New Acoustic Music in Tucson, Arizona.

http://www.thestringfigures.com/

String Figures — Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress

String figures have been found in almost all of the cultures of the world! Can you remember them? I remember as kids we used to play with string and created ...

http://wordpress.com/tag/string-figures/

Open Directory - Arts: Crafts: String Figures

International String Figure Association - The ISFA works to gather, preserve, and distribute string figure knowledge for future generations to enjoy this ...

http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Crafts/String_Figures/

EBSCOhost Connection: String Figures.

Education: The article reviews the book "String Figures; a Study of Cats-Cradle in Many Lands," by Caroline Furness Jayne, with...

http://connection.ebscohost.com/content/article/1043204608.html;jsessionid=B9A6572011A0F2C379C8715BFD5EE02A.ehctc1

String Figures - Mathematics and the Liberal Arts

Gerdes mentions string figures as a possibly productive future research area; he gives some starting points. He also discusses related areas, ...

http://mtcs.truman.edu/~thammond/history/StringFigures.html

Collection of String Figures - WorldStart Computer Tips and ...

With tons of sting figures for you to learn and try out with video clips of how to make them, you'll be tied up in this site for a while.

http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/153