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- 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.
- 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).
- WWW Collection of Favorite String Figures - Instructions using string figure notation and prose descriptions, along with diagrams and some video clips. Features twelve beginner-level figures, followed by others of increasing difficulty, and a directory of performers.
- World Wide Webs - String Figures from Around the World - Richard Darsie's instructions (with photographs) for making 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.
- String Figures - Brian Cox, the Incredible Stringman, tells a story called "Going Fishing" illustrated with string figures. Photos and text of his performance.
- World Wide Webs: String Figures from Around the World - Graded instructions for making a wide variety of string figures popular with native cultures throughout the world. Includes photographs.
- String Figures and Shamanism - An essay by Lois Stokes, with speculations on the role of string figures in Hawaiian culture.
- 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.
- String Figures - Brian Cox, the Incredible Stringman, tells a story called "Going Fishing" illustrated with string figures. Photos and text of his performance.
- 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.
Wikipedia Articles
- String figure - A string figure is a design formed by manipulating string on, around, and using one's fingers or sometimes between the fingers of multiple people. String figures may also involve the use of the mouth, wrist, and feet.
- International String Figure Association - The International String Figure Association is not-for-profit organization for the preservation, dissemination, and creation of string figures. The association was founded in 1978 by mathematician Hiroshi Noguchi and Anglican missionary Philip Noble.
- Caroline Furness Jayne - Caroline Furness Jayne (1873-1909) was an American ethnologist. She wrote perhaps the first, and best-known, book on string figures, String Figures and How to Make Them.
- Cat's cradle - Cat's cradle is a well known series of string figures. The name of the entire game, the specific figures, their order, and the names of the figures vary.
- Brodsky Quartet - The Brodsky Quartet is an internationally acclaimed British string quartet, in existence since 1972, though only Ian Belton and Jacqueline Thomas are original members. In addition to performing outstanding classical music, and in particular the classic string quartet repertoire of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Bartok and Shostakovich, they have notably collaborated with such eminent rock and pop figures as Björk, Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney.