averkieva julia sherman mark holm (3 Ergebnisse)

First edition Fine and bright red boards in like glossy pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Extensive. Of the games people play, String Figures form universal amusement . appearing in many cultures. 2000 patterns have been recorded in 1888 when Franz Boas first described a pair of Eskimo cat cradles, very few studies have since explored this. This publishes for the first time 102 figures and 10 string tricks. Profusely illustrated and with deeply informed text.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition, First Thus. BRAND NEW Copy. Excellent mongraph on string figures, or, variants of the "cat's cradles". 102 string figures and 10 string tricks practiced by the Kwakiutil Indians of North America. This extraordinary collection, with lucid instructions, was assembled by Russian scholar Julia Averkieva (1907 - 1980) of the Soviet Academy of Sciences while accompanying anthropologist Franz Boas on his 1930 expedition to Vancouver Island. Averkieva left her field notes with the American Museum of Natural History on return to Russia. Mark Sherman edited and expanded the manuscript for this volume, and tested each figure for workability.