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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

"An unabridged republication of the work first published ... in 1906 under the former title: String figures." siris_sil_908494 ...
Nature

Artists in String: String Figures, their Regional Distribution and Social Significance

MRS. RISHBETH has long been known as a zealous collector and student of the string games known popularly as ‘cat's cradle’. In this volume she justifies a study which, to the Philistine, may seem ...
Nature

String Figures

THIS book is a second and enlarged edition, of which we have already noticed the first issue (NATURE, vol. 106, p. 640). The subject is comparatively new, though one variety, the cat's cradle, has a ...