Category
page 1String figures

Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
string figure
elaborating figures with a string by one or more players
Alfred Cort Haddon
British anthropologist (1855–1940)
William Halse Rivers Rivers
English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist (1864-1922)
cat's cradle
series of string figures elaborated between two or more people as a game
Diamond Jenness
New-Zealand Canadian anthropologist (1886–1969)
Yulia Pavlovna Averkieva
Russian ethnologist (1907–1980)
Heraclas
thumb|right|Heraklas' sling XIII, the plinthios brokhos is produced in the same manner as a string figure. This example is formed in a doubled cord for better visibility.
thumb|right|The diplous karkhesios brokhos or the modern bottle sling
thumb|right|The epankylotos brokhos or the modern Tom fool's knot
Heraklas () was a Greek physician of the 1st century AD whose descriptions of surgeons' knots and slings are preserved in book 48 of Oribasius' Medical Collections (Ἰατρικαὶ Συναγωγαί, Iatrikai Synagogai) under the title From Heraklas.