On a completely unrelated group, one of the members began including this quote in her signature line. "Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to...
Thanks Mark for the great new magazine. Also for the newsletter. If you make "Breathing" up to step 6, then 1 over all and get 3 far, bring it back and Navajo...
Hello, Michael Taylor wrote a very good book about string games and stories. There are many interesting stories: - "The bow and the arrow" -"Man climbing a...
Hello! I just joined this group... I read some older messages, and it seems that Dave Titus is here in Alaska...I'm in Fairbanks, where are you? I'm doing...
Hello, I´m very happy to see this site! It´s wonderful! Many thanks to Mark and Will! And thank you , Gwyn, to telling us about your student. String figures...
I just finished working with one of my three year old students, who has difficulty speaking clearly due to a condition called dyspraxia. We had just finished...
Hi! I recently learned how to make Whale and Fox. I am planning to share it along with a couple of other string stories as part of a presentation for a group...
The Navaho string figures are wonderful... are the "movies" going to be available for purchase in video or CD format? Are the Arctic Project figures going to...
Well, I have figured out the mystery. I was giving a workshop on String Figures at the public library Saturday. A man asked if I knew the "6 diamonds" and I...
Hi, Perhaps someone know something about these books? Eskimo String Figures by D. Jenness 192 Pages | ISBN 0660024160 Published in January 1996 Unavailable...
Hi all I have only recently discovered this form of stoytelling and am greatly interested as my older children feel they are to cool for the summer reading...
My pilot out to one of the villages is a young woman that was born in Japan. She showed me a figure made from Jacob's Ladder that she called "Mountains and the...
Hi Folks, I received this from another yahoogroups mailing list. When I looked at my Yahoo preferences, sure enough they were all checked "yes". You might want...
To the Group, Maybe someone could post instructions for a Tikopian string figure in memory of Raymond Firth. In the meantime here are some Hopi figures. Most...
Hello everyone. I have a question. Why are the string figures with two persons called as "cat's cradle"?$B!!(B $B!!!!(B ... Tetsuo SATO in Kumamoto, JAPAN...
I am not sure if this is a new way to make 6 diamonds, but I believe it is new to me. It is from the Inuit Immersion class at Barrow Middle School. (Will,...
General announcement: Bulletin of the International String Figure Association, volume 8, went to press on Monday, March 18. The books should be ready to mail...
Hi will and the group, Thank you very much, Will for posting figures. Here a Tikopia figure: Fetaka, in memory of Raymond Firth. a. 1 go into doubled double b....
Joe Ornstein has seen an obituary in the New York Times of March 14 announcing the death of Raymond Firth. The article discusses some of his work as an...
String Figure Sighting: I just saw a string figure scene on TV! In FRIENDS, Pheobe is fighting boredom while waiting 'on hold'; there is a glimpse of her...
Hello, everyone. I went to a movie theater last month, and I had a chance to see a preview of coming attractions. One of them, I saw the preview of the movie:...
Well, My dream is coming true. On March 18th I am flying to Anchorage then on to Barrow, Alaska. From there I will be visiting all the schools in the North...
I have just picked up my newsletter for "String Ministries, inc. It is an 8 page newspaper with an 8 page supplement on my recent trip to Latvia, Lithuania and...
Tom, I wanted to give you a bit more information. I recently joined the ISFA, and have been practicing string figures with my son, who started learning them in...
I have been contacted by an editor at Connect magazine. It is for teachers of kindergarten through eighth grade and it concentrates on science, math and...
Hi All, We have been visiting the Seri Indians of Sonora, Mexico monthly since November. We bring items in need, such as cloths, food, and hand tools, and are...
Dave, What a fantastic trip you are going to have! It will be interesting to see how many of the Jenness figures you run across. The librarian in Barrow said...
