Kwakiutl String Figures Tapa dura - 1992

University of Washington Press, 1992-09-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x1x9. Ex-library hardcover no dj (red boards) in very nice condition with the usual library markings and attachments. Except for library markings, interior clean and unmarked. Tight binding.

University of Washington Press, 1992-09-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x1x9. Ex-library hardcover no dj (red boards) in very nice condition with the usual library markings and attachments. Text block clean and unmarked. Tight binding.

Univ of Washington Pr, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Very Good clean copy, tight binding, with no markings to the text.

Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1992. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new/as new. This is a new book. 199 pages. Instructions and a sketch of the finished string figure.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992. Hardcover. As New in As New dust jacket. Foreword by Bill Holm 199 pages. 102 string figures and 10 string tricks collected by Averkieva, a Soviet scholar who accompanied Franz Boas on his 1930 expedition to Vancouver Island. Complete description of basic openings and string figure moves are added by editor Sherman with clear illustrations.; 8 1/2 x 9 1/2

Univ of Washington Pr, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. b/w Illustration. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. In pictorial jacket, 4to. (light spotting to top edge of pages).

University of Washington Press. Used - Like New. 1992 Hardcover. Fine.

University of Washington Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near fine book and jacket. .

Univ of Washington Pr. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

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… Leer más