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Title: Cat's Cradles From Many Lands.
Description: London, Longmans 1911. Octavo publisher's cloth; xvi,95pp, 59 illustrations. White spine lettering pretty well gone, still rather good. ¶ A pioneering gathering of cat's cradles, or string figures, from the Torres Straits, Africa, the American Indians and Eskimos. I read somewhere that Haddon accompanied her father, A.C. Haddon, on his earlier Torres Straits expedition and she thanks her father for helping gather the material.

Keywords: ethnology games pasttimes Australia Pacific New Guinea America Africa ethnography

Price: AUD 50.00 = appr. US$ 34.59 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 8272