string figures

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• - Descriptions, illustrations and video clips showing how to make basic figures.
  
• - Background information with instructions for making traditional Inuit figures.
  
• - Step by step instructions with photographs.
  
• - Animated instructions for making Jacob's Ladder, Walking Sticks and Two Mountains and a Stream.
  
• - Descriptions and methods for making string figures and tricks known to the Navajo Indians of Arizona.
  
• - Simple instructions with photographs for making a traditional turtle figure. Includes an associated chant.
  
• - Graded instructions for making a wide variety of string figures popular with native cultures throughout the world. Includes photographs.
  
• - An advanced discussion of their history and theory with instructions for making new designs by the author, Martin Probert.