CHartrr XXIV 
STRING FIGURES, TRICKS, AND PUZZLES 
Preliminary (623); the string (624). : 
Definitions (625): Position 1 (626); opening A (627); opening B (628); open- 
ing C (629). Position 2 (630); opening A (631); opening B (632). 
Position 3 (633); opening A (634). Position 4 (635); opening A (636) ; 
opening B (637). 
Synopsis of abbreviations (638). 
Examples of position 1: Jumping dog-flea (689); crab (640-642) ; house-door 
(643); snake (644); frog (645); palm (646, 647); two palms (648) ; 
star (649) ; the Pleiades (650) ; moon (651) ; hammock (652). 
Examples of position 1, opening A: Forked sticks (653); visitor come and 
gone (654); trap, snare (655, 656) ; butterfly (657); two islands (658) ; 
sun between clouds (659); swamp with log across (660); little fishes 
(661) ; looking glass (662). 
Examples of position 1, opening B: Skeleton, ghost, etc. (663); flat board 
(664) ; beetle (665); basket (666). 
Examples of position 1, opening C: Bird’s nest (667) ; corial (668) ; bird’s 
breastbone (669) ; honey, hollow tree trunk (670). 
Examples of position 2: Fish marching (671); monkey or caterpillar (672) 5 
fish-trap, creel (673, 674); bird trap (675). 
Examples of position 2, opening A: Banab (676); two creels (677); jaw- 
bone or man in hammock (678, 679) ; corial (680) ; door (681). 
Examples of position 2, opening B: Bat (682) ; silk-cotton tree (683) ; with 
eagle’s nest (684); eaglets (685); night clouds and daylight (686-689). 
Examples of position 3: Bush, palm trees (690); dragon-fly (691); cow-fly 
(692). 
Examples of position 3, opening A: Yarrau fish (693) ; ite palm (694). 
Examples of position 4: Mosquito (695); bird footprints (696, 697); rainbow, 
mountain (698). 
Examples of position 4, opening A: Four-eye fish (699); sunfish (700). 
Examples of position 4, opening B: Sting-ray (701); spider (702); parrot 
(703). 
Miscellaneous figures, tricks, and puzzles: Baby sling (704); “patois” fish 
(705) ; woodpecker (706); fowl anus (707); cutting the fingers (708— 
710); hanging trick (711, 712); to remove a figure from bow-string 
(718) ; to remove the endless string off two sticks (714) ; to separate two 
locked sticks (715). 
623. Though the first to record and illustrate string figures from 
Australia (North Queensland Ethnography, Bull. No. 4, March, 
1902) and from South America (WER, 1), I had neither time nor 
inclination either to devise measures of my own in the former case or 
to adopt that of others in the latter, with a view to describing the 
500 
