String figures

German-American anthropologist

elaborating figures with a string by one or more players

British anthropologist (1855–1940)

English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist (1864-1922)

series of string figures elaborated between two or more people as a game

New-Zealand Canadian anthropologist (1886–1969)

Russian ethnologist (1907–1980)

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.