Kwakiutl String Figures (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History) office Kwakwaka'wakw Paul Windsor

Kwakwaka'wakw Paul Windsor

Paul Windsor

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Kwakiutl String Figures (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History) office Kwakwaka'wakw Paul WindsorOf the games people play, string figures afford nearly universal amusement, appearing in more cultures than any other. But although over 2,000 individual patterns have been recorded world wide since 1888, when anthropologist Franz Boas first described a pair of Eskimo "cat's cradles," very few studies have explored North American Indian string figures. This intriguing volume publishes for the first time 102 string figures and 10 string tricks