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  • Some string figures from north east Angola, by M. D. and L. S. B. Leakey.

    • Text
    • Lisboa, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang), 1949.
    • 1949
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc+ 793.7-L (Leakey, M. Some string figures...)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The string figures of Nauru Island.

    • Text
    • Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *OAA 77-1645 no. 2 No. 2, 1971Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • String games for beginners, by Kathleen Haddon.

    • Text
    • Cambridge [Eng.] W. Heffer & sons ltd. [1973]
    • 1973-1942
  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 84-3395Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Cat's cradle, owl's eyes : a book of string games / by Camilla Gryski ; illustrated by Tom Sankey.

    • Text
    • New York : W. Morrow, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 85-1156Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Yöruba string figures.

    • Text
    • London, Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [1906]
    • 1906
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 793.7-P (Parkinson, J. Yöruba string figures)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Cat's cradles from many lands, by Kathleen Haddon.

    • Text
    • London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and Co., 1911.
    • 1911
    • 2 Items
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    Text MVFL (haddon, K. Cat's cradles from many lands)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text Sc 793.7-H (Haddon, K. Cat's cradles from many lands)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • String figures from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Zanzibar / by James Hornell.

    • Text
    • London : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, [1930?]
    • 1930
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 793.7-H (Hornell, J. String figures from Sierra Leone)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Kwakiutl string figures / Julia Averkieva and Mark A. Sherman ; foreword by Bill Holm.

    • Text
    • Seattle : University of Washington Press ; New York : American Museum of Natural History, c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text HBC 93-7982Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • 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.

    • Text
    • London : Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1930.
    • 1930
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem 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.

    • Text
    • New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1906.
    • 1906
    • 2 Items

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    Text MVB (Jayne, C. F. String figures)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text MVB (Jayne, C. F. String figures)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • String figures, and other monographs.

    • Text
    • New York, Chelsea Pub. Co., 1960.
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text OEG (String figures and other monographs)Offsite
  • An introduction to string figures [Microform] / by W.W. Rouse Ball ...

    • Text
    • Cambridge : Heffer, 1920.
    • 1920-1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *Z MV p.v. 18-19Offsite
  • 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.

    • Text
    • New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1940.
    • 1940
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MZC (Leeming, J. Fun with string)Offsite
  • String figures from the Marquesas and Society Islands, by Willowdean Chatterson Handy.

    • Text
    • Honolulu, Hawaii, The Museum, 1925.
    • 1925
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text QOA (Bernice Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Bulletin) no. 17-20 Offsite
  • String figures from Fiji and western Polynesia, by James Hornell ...

    • Text
    • Honolulu, Hawaii, The Museum, 1927.
    • 1927
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text QOA (Bernice Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Bulletin) no. 35-41Offsite
  • String figures from Hawaii, including some from New Hebrides and Gilbert Islands, by Lyle A. Dickey.

    • Text
    • Honolulu, Hawaii, The Museum, 1928.
    • 1928
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text QOA (Bernice Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Bulletin) no. 49-54 Offsite
  • Tikopia string figures [by] Raymond Firth and Honor Maude.

    • Text
    • London, Royal Anthropological Institute, 1970.
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem 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.

    • Text
    • Carlisle, W.A. : Hesperian Press, 2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 06-9730Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Strings on your fingers; how to make string figures [by] Harry and Elizabeth Helfman. Illustrated by William Meyerriecks.

    • Text
    • New York : Morrow, [c1965]
    • 1965
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 793 HOffsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 793 HOffsite
  • Pastimes with string and paper / by William R Ransom ; profusely illustrated, 720 diagrams by Edwin A. Hoadley and the author.

    • Text
    • Boston : Christopher Pub. House, c1963.
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 793.9 ROffsite
  • Fun with string; a collection of string games, useful braiding & weaving, knot work & magic with string and rope. Illustrated by Charles E. Pont.

    • Text
    • Dover Publications, [1974]
    • 1974-1940
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 746 LOffsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 746 LOffsite
  • 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
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    Text QPH (NewZealan. Maori) (Andersen, J. C. Maori string figures. 1927)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • String figures : the collections of Harry Smith / editors: John Klacsmann, Andrew Lampert.

    • Text
    • New York : J & L Books and Anthology Film Archives : Distributed by Artbook D A P, 2015.
    • 2015
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JQE 16-167Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • How to spell the fight : fish and fire / Natascha Sadr Haghighian.

    • Text
    • Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2018]
    • 2018-2018
    • 1 Item
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    Text JQB 19-8Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 793.9 GOffsite
  • Lost! : a story in string / by Paul Fleischman ; illustrated by C.B. Mordan.

    • Text
    • New York : Holt, c2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J PIC FOffsite
  • Many stars & more string games / by Camilla Gryski; ill. by Tom Sankey.

    • Text
    • New York : Morrow, c1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 793.9 GOffsite
  • Super string games / by Camilla Gryski ; illustrated by Tom Sankey.

    • Text
    • New York : Morrow Junior Books, 1988, c1987.
    • 1988-1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 793.9 GOffsite
  • String stories : a creative, hands-on approach for engaging children in literature / Belinda Holbrook.

    • Text
    • Worthington, Ohio : Linworth Pub., c2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 027.6251 HSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The collections of Harry Smith catalogue raisonné. Volume II, String figures / editors: John Klacsmann, Andrew Lampert.

    • Text
    • [New York] : J&L Books and Anthology Film Archives, [2015]
    • 2015
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NX512.S65 A4 2015gOff-site
  • How to spell the fight : fish and fire / Natascha Sadr Haghighian.

    • Text
    • Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2018]
    • 2018-2018
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text GN455.S9 S23 2018gOff-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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text QA491 .H626 1983Off-site
  • The string figures of Nauru Island / by Honor Maude with members of the International String Figure Association.

    • Text
    • Nauru : University of the South Pacific Centre in Nauru ; Suva, Fiji : Institute of Pacific Studies, 2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text GN455.S9 S85 2001Off-site
  • Maori string figures, by Johannes C. Andersen.

    • Text
    • 1927
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MW71 A544Off-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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 967.3 C738 no.4aOff-site
  • The string figures of Nauru Island / by Honor Maude.

    • Text
    • Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text DS1 .O25 no.2Off-site
  • SF: speculative fabulation and string figures = SF: spekulative Fabulation und String-Figuren / Donna Haraway ; [translation: Nikolaus G. Schneider].

    • Text
    • 2011
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text N6488.G3 K3718 2012h no.033Off-site
  • Reproduction of "Some string figures from north east Angola" / M.D. and L.S.B. Leakey.

    • Text
    • Pasadena : Munger Africana Library, California Institute of Technology, 1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text L.SOC.120.Cf.10.1.1 (57)Off-site
  • String figures of New Guinea / Philip Noble.

    • Text
    • Boroko, P.N.G. : Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TECH. N 668 sOff-site
  • String figures from Pukapuka / by Pearl Beaglehole and Honor Maude.

    • Text
    • Canberra : Homa Press, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text GN455.S9 B435 1989Off-site
  • Eskimo string figures / by D. Jenness.

    • Text
    • Ottawa : F.A. Acland, 1924.
    • 1924
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 27256.22.37Off-site
  • String figures, by W.W. Rouse Ball ...

    • Text
    • Cambridge, W. Heffer & sons, ltd., 1921.
    • 1921
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text SG 4020.3.2Off-site
  • An introduction to string figures / by W. W. Rouse Ball.

    • Text
    • Cambridge [Eng.] : W. Heffer, 1920.
    • 1920
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text SG 4020.3Off-site
  • String-figures from the Gilbert Islands, by H.C. and H.E. Maude.

    • Text
    • Wellington, N.Z., Polynesian Society, 1958.
    • 1958
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem 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.

    • Text
    • Canberra : Homa Press : distributed by ANU Press, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text OC.MEL. M 441 sOff-site
  • String figures of the Tuamotus / by Kenneth Emory and Honor Maude.

    • Text
    • Canberra : Homa Press, 1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text OC.POLY. Em 69 stOff-site
  • The game of cat's cradle / by F. Boas.

    • Text
    • [Leiden : P.W.M. Trap], 1888.
    • 1888
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TECH. B 63 gOff-site
  • Lulaʾot : [miśḥak ha-lahaṭuṭim ha-yetsirati mi-Yapan]

    • Text
    • Tel Aviv : Hotsaʾat Ṿakhṭenberg, 1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Heb 44801.634Off-site
  • Aboriginal Australian string figures / by Daniel Sutherland Davidson.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : The American Philosophical Society, 1941.
    • 1941
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text OC.AUS. D 281 aOff-site

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