Hello, everyone!! I received the latest issue of SF-Magazine today, July 3. In Japan, we name the forth string figure pattern not a dandelion but a...
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myriam namolaru
myriam_n@...
Jul 3, 2000 6:14 pm
Hello, I am writting to wish all the american members a wonderful Independence Day! Best Wishes, Myriam ...
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okteller@...
Jul 4, 2000 5:35 pm
Hi all, Happy 4th also. I spent yesterday at a video studeo making a new video. It is to promote the concept of String Ministry. I think the title will be...
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Calvetti Family
rcalvettijr@...
Jul 5, 2000 1:55 pm
Hello, There was a discussion of Maori stories and culture on a storytelling list I am a part of, and this site was mentioned ...
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Will Wirt
wlwirt@...
Jul 6, 2000 5:52 pm
Thanks Joe and Mark for another fine issue of String Figure Magazine. I hope we all appreciate the hard work that goes into producing it. Putting out four...
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Julianne Huss
faeriering@...
Jul 11, 2000 12:42 pm
I am getting involved with the Renaissance Faire. Could anyone tell me of string figures that would have been used in the medieval times and where I might...
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okteller@...
Jul 13, 2000 3:06 am
Hi Group, Well, I was in Detroit this last weekend and met with Bob Grimes, a string figure person that teaches at a couple of camps for school children. He...
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Mark A. Sherman
isfa@...
Jul 14, 2000 2:46 am
Julianne, Your question concerning the presence of string figures in Renaissance Europe is a good one -- something many of us have wondered for years. ...
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faeriering@...
Jul 16, 2000 2:14 am
Mark, Thanks for the history lesson on string-figures. I guess I will have to put Renaissance string-figures on hold until some archeologists discovers their...
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Philip & Audrey Small
auphil@...
Jul 16, 2000 9:58 pm
Mark, Many thanks for your informative e-mail, July 13, on string figures in Renaissance Europe. It prompts the following musings. When I was taking a course...
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Klon@...
Jul 16, 2000 11:07 pm
Just reporting on my week of fun. We just completed Vacation Bible school at my church. I helped with 5th and 6th graders and we did string figures that ...
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okteller@...
Aug 1, 2000 3:58 am
Well, I am off to Mongolia for seven weeks. I am taking 20,000 strings - that's four duffel bags of strings with me. I will let you know how things go when I...
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Klon@...
Aug 1, 2000 11:51 am
May God go wirh you - before you and after you. Amen....
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Will Wirt
wlwirt@...
Aug 2, 2000 6:30 pm
To the group, I know Dave will have a terrific trip. PBS is showing Flattery's classic "Nanook of the North" documntary this month. Does anyone know if there...
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Mark A. Sherman
isfa@...
Aug 2, 2000 10:39 pm
Will and the group, I watched "Nanook of the North" about a year ago on PBS. It's long (2 hours) and fascinating, but no string figures -- a real...
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Will Wirt
wlwirt@...
Aug 2, 2000 11:08 pm
I should have said Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North (I live near Cape Flattery). Here is another Pukapuka figure. The Crossings 1. Opening A. 2. Release...
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Klon@...
Aug 2, 2000 11:50 pm
Would it be possible to give some idea of what the figures look like when done? I have tried the first one, but don't know if I got it right or not, since I...
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Will Wirt
wlwirt@...
Aug 3, 2000 6:30 pm
Bonnie and Group, It takes awhile to catch on to the shorthand. I put up images of the figures at http://www.olympus.net/personal/wlwirt/pukapuka.htm. Note...
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Klon@...
Aug 3, 2000 7:39 pm
When I did "The Crossings" I discovered that it is the figure also called "Ten Men" and "Turtle."...
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myriam namolaru
myriam_n@...
Aug 14, 2000 12:20 pm
Hello, I have a problem with a figure. The figure is "Moo-iki, method N°1" (page 47) from the book of Dickey "String Figures from Hawaii". (The figure is also...
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myriam namolaru
myriam_n@...
Aug 14, 2000 12:21 pm
Hello, I have a problem with a figure. The figure is "Moo-iki, method N°1" (page 47) from the book of Dickey "String Figures from Hawaii". (The figure is also...
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myriam namolaru
myriam_n@...
Aug 14, 2000 8:07 pm
Hello, I love origami too. And i found these messages: http://www.multimania.com/myriamn/lienssuite2.html I saw also a page about "SIMPLE ORIGAMI": In English:...
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Earl Stokes
stokes@...
Aug 15, 2000 12:39 am
Aloha Myriam, The success of the figure moo-iki in step 14 is to allow the top string to move toward the left thumb, which stands upright like a tree, allowing...
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Will Wirt
wlwirt@...
Aug 17, 2000 9:20 pm
I picked this up on the internet. I hope somebody from the mailing list can get to this program. I'm sure it will be fascinating. Dave Titus presented a string...
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myriam namolaru
myriam_n@...
Aug 22, 2000 1:10 pm
Hello, I saw something interesting, i think: http://www.deproverbio.com/DPjournal/DP,5,2,99/LUOMALA/HAWAIIAN.html Nobody knows something else about: "MATTHEW...
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Earl Stokes
stokes@...
Aug 23, 2000 2:43 am
Aloha Myriam ... It was interesting to note the references given at the end of the article by Katarine Luomala. Many of them are ones which we were told are...
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LeeMGard@...
Aug 25, 2000 1:51 am
I know that the Navajo people believe that string games should only be played between the first snowstorm of the fall and the first thunderstorm of the spring....
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Will Wirt
wlwirt@...
Aug 25, 2000 10:39 pm
Lee, According to Diamond Jenness, the Inuit originally restricted SF to winter time while the sun stayed below the horizon. By the time he collected figures...
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Earl Stokes
stokes@...
Aug 28, 2000 5:57 pm
Aloha Lee, Regarding your question on restrictions on the Hawaiians playing of string games, Mary K. Pukui in her 1986 edition with S. H. Elbert of the...
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Elizabeth Tilling
e_tilling@...
Sep 7, 2000 3:00 pm
I have been saving letters on a disc because I access the internet at the public library and don't want to use up my free memory space on Yahoo with large...
