HOUSE

 

House
 
 

Invented by
EDD STERCHI
(WAKAHANA)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1. Opening A.
 
 

2. Then 1 pass above 2
and pick up 5n.
 
 

3. Now 345 hook down 2
the palmar string and 1f.
 
 

4.Then 1 and 2 pass toward you
above upper 1n
below 1n transverse.
Straighten 345.
 
 

You have a loop on 1
two on 2
and one on 5
 
 

5. Release 1
Don't extend
 
 

6. Then 1 enter from above into
its former loop
pass below 2²
and pick up 5l
through its own loop.
 
 
 
 

7. Release 5.
Navaho 2.
Extend.

 

 

THE HOUSE
FLYING

(Te Bata)

COLLECTED BY
         H. C. ET H. E.
MAUDE
(String Figures from
Gilbert Islands)

 

    A. Put a bit of the loop in the
         mouth.

        The R hand, over the
         mouth´s  R string , picks up
         the mouth´s  L string , on
         the R wrist´s back.

    B. The L hand, passes
         between the body and
         the mouth´s
         R string, and picks up it
         from below on its back.

    C. You have a big loop
         around the wrists and a
         little, hold by the mouth.

         It´s the mouth´s opening.

         5, from above, removes the
         mouth´s loop.

     D. The mouth* passes above
          the Rn string´s wrist,
          below R5 and bites the Rf
          string´s wrist.
          Release the string´s wrist.

     E. R1 removes, from above,
          the mouth´s loop.

          You have a loop on 1 and
          one on 5.

          Do the steps  D. and E.
          with the L hand.

     F. 1 picks up 5n.

     G. Caroline Extension.

 

       * One can use the opposite
           hand´s 1 and 2.
 
 

 

Monocanthus´s
house

COLLECTED BY
A.C. HADDON
CAT´S CRADLE FROM MANY LANDS
BY KATHLEEN HADDON
Longmans, Green and Co.
1911)

 

    A. Opening A.

    B. 2 enter from above into 5.
         2 pass below his own
         strings and straighten.
         Release 5.

    C. 5 hook down 2f².
         You have the
         Ti meta Opening.
 

    D. R4 enters, "from below",
         into R5² and removes,
         from below, R1.

    E. R1, enters away from you,
         into the upper triangle of
         the center of the figure.
         R1 pushes down the
         oblique string and picks
        up the second oblique
         string.
 

    F. Release R4.
         R4 removes from below R1.
         R1 removes from above R4.

    G. R1 picks up the
         R palm´s strings.
         Release 5.

    H. R5 removes from below R1².

      I. R1 picks up the upper R2
         (R2-L2 string).
         Release R2².

    End of
Nageg Opening

 

    J. Release L1. Don't extend
         To the left of the hanging
         loop, L1 pushes down the
         oblique string,
         No transverse D2
         up to below
         the two transverse strings.

         L3 removes from above L1.
         L1 over the double strings
         removes from below L3.
 
 
 

You have the
monocanthus

 

     K. Now put your
          monocanthus on the table.
          And pick up another loop.
          Make the steps  A.-I.
          (Nageg Opening),
          with both hands.
      The  figure is, then,
          symetric.

     L. 2 removes from above 1.
          Extend.
 
 
 

You have
monocanthus´s house

 

           Do you think your
           Monocanthus is brave
           enough, to enter into the
           both monocanthus´s
           house?