String-Figures | Nature
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KATHLEEN HADDON (Mrs. O. H. T. Rishbeth), unquestionably our foremost expert in the study of the string-figure, has published a selection of these ingenious diversions for the use of
beginners (“String Games for Beginners”, Heffer and Sons, Cambridge. Qd. net). Twenty-four figures given here will serve as an introduction to their endless variety, and afford those
previously uninstructed some idea of their wide distribution in various parts of the world. Mrs. Rishbeth has drawn on her own material collected in New Guinea and Australia, on figures
brought back by Dr. A. C. Haddon from the Torres Straits, and on material from various tribes of the Indians of North America. Instructions are reduced to their simplest terms, and a brief
introduction sets out the significance of the string-figure, and explains why it is of interest to science as an indication of the life and thought of the people among whom each type of game
occurs. Mrs. Rishbeth has considerately supplied a suitable piece of string which is attached to the book for the use of the reader.
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