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Kwakiutl String Figures Hardcover - 1992
by Julia Averkieva; Mark A. Sherman
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- Title Kwakiutl String Figures
- Author Julia Averkieva; Mark A. Sherman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 230
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Washington Press, Seattle
- Date 1992
- ISBN 9780295971728 / 029597172X
- Weight 1.81 lbs (0.82 kg)
- Dimensions 9.37 x 8.58 x 0.92 in (23.80 x 21.79 x 2.34 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Kwakiutl Indians - Games, String figures - British Columbia
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92-02728
- Dewey Decimal Code 793
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Of the games people play, string figures afford nearly universal amusement, appearing in more cultures than any other. But although over 2,000 individual patterns have been recorded world-wide since 1888, when anthropologist Franz Boas first described a pair of Eskimo "cat's cradles," very few studies have explored North American Indian string figures. This intriguing volume publishes for the first time 102 string figures and 10 string tricks collected among the Kwakiutl Indians by Julia Averkieva, a young visiting Soviet scholar who accompanied Boas on his 1930 expedition to Vancouver Island. When she returned to Leningrad, Averkieva left her unpublished monograph with Boas, whose heirs eventually sent it to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Averkieva's study represents the most comprehensive Native American string collection ever assembled from a single tribe. In addition to characterizing the social conditions that prompted string figure making among the Kwakiutl during the time…
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