Dear Mizz, I saw your photo of Cut Glass. I like it very much. Can you clarify your written instructions. What do you mean by +alpha 1 kick (like reverse...
Hello String Figures Mailing Group: I'm mizz. Thank you for your interest jmjrd2001. Here are steps for your request and little more. First: mizz code of...
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Rebekah Smith
rsmith7@...
Nov 3, 2003 5:19 pm
Hi, Everyone, I'm writing in w/ a query about the Inuit figure called "Oil Lamp Flames" (Contributions a l'ethnographie des Eskimo d'Angmagssalik, 1940). It...
Rebekah, Check out http://www.isfa.org/arctic/144.htm which gives two methods for making A Range of Mountains (the Jenness version of Clothesline). Another...
Good question Rebekah. Gordon's instructions for making Clothesline were published in our 1996 Bulletin (pages 35-36) in an article by me, Richard Darsie, and...
Hello String Figures Mailing Group: I'm mizz. Upload "Wide head Jackhammer" and family to Photos. Phto Album>Jackhammer mizz(4 type each 2 photo sum 8) mizz...
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rsmith7@...
Nov 4, 2003 7:45 pm
Mark, Will, Thanks so much for the information!! I've looked on the Arctic String Figures site at the mountain figures -- very cool. And what a project, in...
Dear Mizz, Thank you for explaining your code. I can now make your figures. Wide Head Jackhammer and Wave are simple, yet very clever figures. Your photos are...
Hi all, Dear D'Antoni, This figure, I think, is very popular but I don't know the name. I call it "Stretcher" in mizz code examples. procedure is below. 0 base...
Hello Group. I am mizz. Here are mizz code exsamples. It's easy to understand mizz code with these figures Half Stretchers (8 exsamples) Alpha Half Stretcher...
I had volunteered to see if I could find out some information about a good time for an ISFA gathering in St. Louis in 2004 when the 1904 Worlds Fair would be...
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Mandolajoe@...
Nov 10, 2003 12:36 pm
Just to say -- Summertime in St. Louis can be brutally uncomfortable. MandolaJoe [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Rebekah Smith
rsmith7@...
Nov 10, 2003 5:53 pm
But after years of playing with SFs, I gotta ask: when not in private or en famille, and when fingers can't manage it, what do we use for poking those last,...
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Cutrofello, Tom
TCutrofe@...
Nov 10, 2003 5:56 pm
Before doing those complex string figures, I bite down on a pencil and make adjustments with that. ... From: Rebekah Smith [mailto:rsmith7@...] Sent:...
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Rebekah Smith
rsmith7@...
Nov 10, 2003 9:39 pm
Pencil! Very dignified technique, thanks! Better tooth marks on pencil than some of the alternatives. One book I checked out of the library had a old, old,...
I use teeth, and sometimes a pencil held between my knees. All good fun, Beth ... From: Cutrofello, Tom To: 'string-figures@yahoogroups.com' Sent: Monday,...
Dear Joseph, Thank you very much for your question of palace. I have a chance to clarify mizz code myself. palace (starting position mizz code #05) 1 1-5,s 2...
Hi all. These are basic ones. but new code explanations. Then everyone can get many diamonds easy by code. Photos show these figures, look and check them. ...
Dear Joseph D'Antoni, Yes, you have gotten it completely. And Current string terminology and notation is quite useful for me. Alternative palace mizz code,...
Hi all, 2,4,6,8,10 diamonds open and 2,4,6,8 diamonds box are here. There is no cross and/or snake, genuine diamonds. In general any even diamonds are possible...
Hi all, 1,3,5,7,9 diamonds open and 1,3,5,7,9 diamonds box are here. No cross or snake on the diamonds corner. Perfect diamonds on the loop. The secret of...
Hello all, Mizz code is not always clear, and sometimes ambiguous. The best way to explain Mizz code is by interpreting some examples. Next to each mizz code...
Dear Joe, Nice decoding. Thanks. I am appreciating you for your interpreting and showing mizz cord indistinct and ambiguous. I hope though mizz code is useful...
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Rebekah Smith
rsmith7@...
Nov 19, 2003 9:29 pm
Hey, Y'all, Gosh, the listserve archives are fascinating in a rare way! I started to browse through them Monday just to get a feel for what's already been ...
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Carol Ford
mothnflame@...
Nov 20, 2003 5:05 am
Thanks for the wonderful thoughts. I've been floating along this thread for a long time, but haven't stopped to read anything in a long time. Your subject...
Hello all, "Apache Door" is quite popular figure for everyone. Mizz code can open the door and get into new figures. (Photos/Apache Doors) busybee's notation...
Sort of changing the topic a bit, but does anyone know why the Apache Door/Gate figure is called that? Do the Apache use some such barrier across doorways?...
