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"Opening A", seen from below "Two Diamonds" Heraklas' "Plinthios Brokhos" made in a doubled cord.Resembles "A Hole in the Tree" with different crossings. "Cradle", the first (and opening) position of Cat's cradle "Soldier's Bed" from Cat's cradle "Candles" from Cat's cradle "Diamonds" from Cat's cradle "Cat's Eye" from Cat's cradle "Fish in a Dish" from Cat's cradle "Grandfather Clock" from ...
String figures have also been used for divination, such as to predict the sex of an unborn child. [1] A popular string game is cat's cradle, but many string figures are known in many places under different names, [2] and string figures are well distributed throughout the world. [3] [4]
Cat's Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's fourth novel, it was first published on March 18, 1963, [ 1 ] exploring and satirizing issues of science , technology , the purpose of religion , and the arms race , often through the use of morbid humor .
Cat's cradle. Many Aboriginal groups traditionally made many shapes out of the string (cat's cradle). A researcher once watched and photographed a young Aboriginal woman from Yirrkala make over 200 separate string figures. Each one involved complicated movements of her fingers and thumbs.
Cat's cradle is a well-known series of string figures. Cat's cradle may also refer to: Literature. Cat's Cradle, a 1963 novel by Kurt Vonnegut;
Chinese jump rope combines the skills of hopscotch with some of the patterns from the hand-and-string game cat's cradle. The game began in 7th-century China. In the 1960s, children in the Western hemisphere adapted the game. German-speaking children call Chinese jump rope gummitwist and British children call it elastics. The game is typically ...
Caroline Augusta Jayne (née Furness; July 3, 1873 – June 23, 1909) was an American ethnologist who published the first book on string figures in 1906 titled String Figures: A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands.
By 1949, Fuller had begun making the abstract string compositions that would become her trademark, and was photographed with one of these large constructions for Life magazine. [10] Fuller's own writing connected her abstract designs in string to the tradition of the cat's cradle, or string figure. [11]