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Some string figures from north east Angola, by M. D. and L. S. B. Leakey.
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- Lisboa, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang), 1949.
- 1949
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc+ 793.7-L (Leakey, M. Some string figures...) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The string figures of Nauru Island.
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- Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1971.
- 1971
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OAA 77-1645 no. 2 No. 2, 1971 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
String games for beginners, by Kathleen Haddon.
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- Cambridge [Eng.] W. Heffer & sons ltd. [1973]
- 1973-1942
Orderly tangles : cloverleafs, gordian knots, and regular polylinks / Alan Holden ; with photographs by Doug Kendall.
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- New York : Columbia University Press, 1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 84-3395 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Cat's cradle, owl's eyes : a book of string games / by Camilla Gryski ; illustrated by Tom Sankey.
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- New York : W. Morrow, 1984.
- 1984
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 85-1156 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Yöruba string figures.
- Text
- London, Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [1906]
- 1906
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 793.7-P (Parkinson, J. Yöruba string figures) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Cat's cradles from many lands, by Kathleen Haddon.
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- London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and Co., 1911.
- 1911
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MVFL (haddon, K. Cat's cradles from many lands) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 793.7-H (Haddon, K. Cat's cradles from many lands) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
String figures from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Zanzibar / by James Hornell.
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- London : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, [1930?]
- 1930
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 793.7-H (Hornell, J. String figures from Sierra Leone) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Kwakiutl string figures / Julia Averkieva and Mark A. Sherman ; foreword by Bill Holm.
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- Seattle : University of Washington Press ; New York : American Museum of Natural History, c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HBC 93-7982 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Artists in string, string figures: their regional distribution and social signifigance / by Kathleen Haddon (Mrs. O.H. T. Rishbeth) ... With a foreword by Professor J. L. Myres ... with 82 diagrams.
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- London : Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1930.
- 1930
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text QOD (Haddon, K. Artists in string) Offsite String figures; a study of cat's-cradle in many lands, by Caroline Furness Jayne; with an ethnological introduction by Alfred C. Haddon.
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- New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1906.
- 1906
- 2 Items
Available Online
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433066586375Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MVB (Jayne, C. F. String figures) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MVB (Jayne, C. F. String figures) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
String figures, and other monographs.
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- New York, Chelsea Pub. Co., 1960.
- 1960
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OEG (String figures and other monographs) Offsite An introduction to string figures [Microform] / by W.W. Rouse Ball ...
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- Cambridge : Heffer, 1920.
- 1920-1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *Z MV p.v. 18-19 Offsite Fun with string : a collection of string games, useful braiding & weaving, knot work & magic with string and rope / by Joseph Leeming ; illustrated by Charles E. Pont.
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- New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1940.
- 1940
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC (Leeming, J. Fun with string) Offsite String figures from the Marquesas and Society Islands, by Willowdean Chatterson Handy.
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- Honolulu, Hawaii, The Museum, 1925.
- 1925
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text QOA (Bernice Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Bulletin) no. 17-20 Offsite String figures from Fiji and western Polynesia, by James Hornell ...
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- Honolulu, Hawaii, The Museum, 1927.
- 1927
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text QOA (Bernice Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Bulletin) no. 35-41 Offsite String figures from Hawaii, including some from New Hebrides and Gilbert Islands, by Lyle A. Dickey.
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- Honolulu, Hawaii, The Museum, 1928.
- 1928
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text QOA (Bernice Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Bulletin) no. 49-54 Offsite Tikopia string figures [by] Raymond Firth and Honor Maude.
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- London, Royal Anthropological Institute, 1970.
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text QOA (Royal anthropological institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Occasional papers. no. 27) no. 27-32 (1969-1974) Offsite Aboriginal Australian string figures / D.S. Davidson.
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- Carlisle, W.A. : Hesperian Press, 2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 06-9730 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Strings on your fingers; how to make string figures [by] Harry and Elizabeth Helfman. Illustrated by William Meyerriecks.
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- New York : Morrow, [c1965]
- 1965
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 793 H Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 793 H Offsite Pastimes with string and paper / by William R Ransom ; profusely illustrated, 720 diagrams by Edwin A. Hoadley and the author.
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- Boston : Christopher Pub. House, c1963.
- 1963
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 793.9 R Offsite Fun with string; a collection of string games, useful braiding & weaving, knot work & magic with string and rope. Illustrated by Charles E. Pont.
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- Dover Publications, [1974]
- 1974-1940
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 746 L Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 746 L Offsite Maori string figures / by Johannes C. Andersen.
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- Wellington, N.Z. : Pub. on behalf of the author by the Board of Maori ethnological research, 1927.
- 1927
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text QPH (NewZealan. Maori) (Andersen, J. C. Maori string figures. 1927) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
String figures : the collections of Harry Smith / editors: John Klacsmann, Andrew Lampert.
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- New York : J & L Books and Anthology Film Archives : Distributed by Artbook D A P, 2015.
- 2015
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JQE 16-167 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
How to spell the fight : fish and fire / Natascha Sadr Haghighian.
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- Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2018]
- 2018-2018
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JQB 19-8 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Cat's cradle, owl's eyes : a book of string games / by Camilla Gryski ; illustrated by Tom Sankey.
- Text
- New York : W. Morrow, c1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 793.9 G Offsite Lost! : a story in string / by Paul Fleischman ; illustrated by C.B. Mordan.
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- New York : Holt, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J PIC F Offsite Many stars & more string games / by Camilla Gryski; ill. by Tom Sankey.
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- New York : Morrow, c1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 793.9 G Offsite Super string games / by Camilla Gryski ; illustrated by Tom Sankey.
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- New York : Morrow Junior Books, 1988, c1987.
- 1988-1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 793.9 G Offsite String stories : a creative, hands-on approach for engaging children in literature / Belinda Holbrook.
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- Worthington, Ohio : Linworth Pub., c2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 027.6251 H Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The collections of Harry Smith catalogue raisonné. Volume II, String figures / editors: John Klacsmann, Andrew Lampert.
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- [New York] : J&L Books and Anthology Film Archives, [2015]
- 2015
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NX512.S65 A4 2015g Off-site How to spell the fight : fish and fire / Natascha Sadr Haghighian.
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- Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2018]
- 2018-2018
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GN455.S9 S23 2018g Off-site Orderly tangles : cloverleafs, gordian knots, and regular polylinks / Alan Holden ; with photographs by Doug Kendall.
- Text
- New York : Columbia University Press, 1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text QA491 .H626 1983 Off-site The string figures of Nauru Island / by Honor Maude with members of the International String Figure Association.
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- Nauru : University of the South Pacific Centre in Nauru ; Suva, Fiji : Institute of Pacific Studies, 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GN455.S9 S85 2001 Off-site Maori string figures, by Johannes C. Andersen.
- Text
- Wellington, N.Z., Pub. on behalf of the author by the Board of Maori ethnological research, 1927.
- 1927
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MW71 A544 Off-site Some string figures from North East Angola / by M.D. and L.S.B. Leakey.
- Text
- Lisboa : Companhia de diamantes de Angola, 1949.
- 1949
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 967.3 C738 no.4a Off-site The string figures of Nauru Island / by Honor Maude.
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- Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1971.
- 1971
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text DS1 .O25 no.2 Off-site SF: speculative fabulation and string figures = SF: spekulative Fabulation und String-Figuren / Donna Haraway ; [translation: Nikolaus G. Schneider].
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- Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2011.
- 2011
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text N6488.G3 K3718 2012h no.033 Off-site Reproduction of "Some string figures from north east Angola" / M.D. and L.S.B. Leakey.
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- Pasadena : Munger Africana Library, California Institute of Technology, 1981.
- 1981
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text L.SOC.120.Cf.10.1.1 (57) Off-site String figures of New Guinea / Philip Noble.
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- Boroko, P.N.G. : Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1979.
- 1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TECH. N 668 s Off-site String figures from Pukapuka / by Pearl Beaglehole and Honor Maude.
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- Canberra : Homa Press, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GN455.S9 B435 1989 Off-site Eskimo string figures / by D. Jenness.
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- Ottawa : F.A. Acland, 1924.
- 1924
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 27256.22.37 Off-site String figures, by W.W. Rouse Ball ...
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- Cambridge, W. Heffer & sons, ltd., 1921.
- 1921
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SG 4020.3.2 Off-site An introduction to string figures / by W. W. Rouse Ball.
- Text
- Cambridge [Eng.] : W. Heffer, 1920.
- 1920
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SG 4020.3 Off-site String-figures from the Gilbert Islands, by H.C. and H.E. Maude.
- Text
- Wellington, N.Z., Polynesian Society, 1958.
- 1958
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text L.SOC.80.100 (13) Off-site Solomon Islands string figures : from field collections made by Sir Raymond Firth in 1928-1929 and Christa de Coppet in 1963-1965 / by Honor Maude.
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- Canberra : Homa Press : distributed by ANU Press, 1978.
- 1978
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OC.MEL. M 441 s Off-site String figures of the Tuamotus / by Kenneth Emory and Honor Maude.
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- Canberra : Homa Press, 1979.
- 1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OC.POLY. Em 69 st Off-site The game of cat's cradle / by F. Boas.
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- [Leiden : P.W.M. Trap], 1888.
- 1888
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TECH. B 63 g Off-site Lulaʾot : [miśḥak ha-lahaṭuṭim ha-yetsirati mi-Yapan]
- Text
- Tel Aviv : Hotsaʾat Ṿakhṭenberg, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Heb 44801.634 Off-site Aboriginal Australian string figures / by Daniel Sutherland Davidson.
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- Philadelphia : The American Philosophical Society, 1941.
- 1941
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OC.AUS. D 281 a Off-site
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