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English: Possibly the first, and best-known book on string figures. (Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
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Source Scan of the 1962 edition, an unabridged republication of the original edition.
Author Caroline Furness Jayne (1873-1909), Introduction and some photos by Alfred Cort Haddon (1855-1940), other photos are either "Courtesy of Mr. S. C. Simms" (that is Stephen Chapman Simms (1863-1937) of the Field Colombian Museum, Chicago (now the Field Museum of Natural History)), or by William Henry Furness III (1866-1920), the brother of the principal author.
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