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By Hook or By Book - An excerpt from a murder mystery novel by D. R. Meredith. The victim is murdered by one of several string figure enthusiasts, over a newly-found manuscript by Caroline F. Jayne.
 
International String Figure Association - The ISFA works to gather, preserve, and distribute string figure knowledge for future generations to enjoy this ancient pastime. They have a list of publications, an invitation to become a member, a mailing list, and links to related web sites. Of particular interest are the detailed instructions for making figures collected in 1924 by Diamond Jenness in the Canadian Arctic.
 
Maori String Figures - From the Department of Maori Studies, The University of Auckland.
 
Me Human, You Alien - How to talk to an extraterrestrial, using a handful of coins, a loop of string, a flashlight, and two magnets. This is an excerpt from a book entitled "The Handbook of UFO Contact" by Jonathan Vos Post.
 
Rain Forest String Figures From Guyana - Photographs taken on a canoe trip along the upper Essequibo River in extreme southern Guyana. Some of the Wai Wai and Wapishana guides and boatmen demonstrated a few string figures for the author.
 
String Figures - Illustrated instructions for making the "Jacob's Ladder" (animated), "Two Mountains and a Stream" and "Walking Sticks" figures.
 
String Figures - Illustrated instructions for making the "Jacob's Ladder" (animated), "Two Mountains and a Stream" and "Walking Sticks" figures.
 
String Figures - Illustrated instructions for making the "Jacob's Ladder" (animated), "Two Mountains and a Stream" and "Walking Sticks" figures.
 
String Figures - Illustrated instructions for making the "Jacob's Ladder" (animated), "Two Mountains and a Stream" and "Walking Sticks" figures.
 
String Figures Depict the Universe - An excerpt of two illustrations from "Artists in String" by Kathleen Haddon; a book showing how different cultures express information using a loop of string.
 
String Figures and Shamanism - An essay by Lois Stokes, with speculations on the role of string figures in Hawaiian culture.
 
String Games - Illustrated instructions for making the Butterfly string figure.
 
Strings On Your Fingers - Michael P. Garofalo does presentations on string figures art, and performances of string figures, catches, and tricks in Northern California and Southern Oregon. His site has a recommended reading list and bibliography for string figures.
 
The Mathematics and Origin of String Figures - Trivial knot theory, history, and a few new designs by the author, Martin Probert.
 
WWW Collection of Favorite String Figures - How to make string figures, explained using string figure notation and prose descriptions, along with diagrams. Features twelve beginner-level figures, followed by many more of increasing difficulty, and a directory of performers.
 
World-Wide Webs - Richard Darsie's instructions for how to make a wide variety of string figures popular with native cultures throughout the world, organized by "families" and rated according to difficulty. He provides bibliographical references to sources.
 
Yahoo! Groups Stringfigures - Registered members of this group are interested in describing and illustrating string figures for publication on the web at WWW Collection of Favorite String Figures. They are also developing a system of string figure notation (SFN).
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