BISFA 4
1997
 
 
 

PUBLISHER
ISFA PRESS
 

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
MARK SHERMAN

Associate editors
Joseph D´Antoni, Tetsuo Sato and Felix Paturi

Editorial advisory board
Hiroshi Noguchi, Philip Noble, Honor Maude
 
 
 
 

update/Mis à jour  3/02/2011
 
 

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     Ballot paper
          awaiting voter´s
                     decision     188
     Ballot paper with X  188         ~X  19M96   ~X 249BISFA8
                  ~X figure       119BISFA6
    Bed (?) (Mokwekwe)      171         140BISFA8
         Small bird with
          two long tail
          feathers (Mbesele)   171

      Bed mattress
                  (likelanga nsese)  168
      Push-chair               169
      Clown´s mouth        169
          Man and woman
    (Ewengo na malia)  170

   Binary stars               224    Richard 14M00  360BISFA7
 
 

   Broom (four forks)     229   157BISFA6   Bull.SFA N°10 p14-15  6H
                                                ~Broom (three forks)  Bull.SFA N°10 p14-15
  210BISFA519S98
                            ~Broom (five forks) 234BISFA4

         Elevator                230
Snail                   230

   footprint       230

invented by KUNIHIKO KASAHARA

/Footprint     3M02
Elephant´s footprint 12S01

   Butterfly                     228
 
 
 
 
 

   Buffalo                          25
  Canoe                            27
   Cat, Cheshire             194
 
 

   Crab      229
invented by KEIKO KOSUGI
/ Crab        7M97-34I-115H
 
 

  Drawing a lottery
              or divination    229 (suite)
invented by KEIKO KOSUGI

  Crane, Origami        232
   Crown of Laurel,
                       Poet´s      199
   Cut the fingers II        122
   Diamond, double         126
  Diamond, one               26      /Diamond, one  60

   Diamond, one              125
       Overhand knot        125

    Diamond, Two             154
       Oar (Nkai)                  155    ~Spear Money  173BISFA8
~Spear that killed
                         the chief´s child
                                                 163BISFA4

   Diamond, three             60
   Diamond, four               60/62
   Diamond, four
           (method 1)           122
   Diamond, four
           (method 2)           122
   Diamond, five               62
   Diamond, six                 62
  Diamonds, seven         123      13D97-11I /Diamonds47H
   Diamond stored, two    62
   Door                             128
   Dragonfly                     225  6/11
   Drawing a lottery or divination 229

   Dromedary                  196
        Bactrian camel       197
        Loch ness monster  197

   Drum, Small (Bubu)      166      ~Hen´s anus    188BISFA8
  Flying fox
                       (Mangbongbo)  167  10M98  134BISFA8

  Drum, Tall (Monbonda)  167
       Breast (Mabei)           168

   Drum (Nbugbu)               161       167BISFA8
        Company house
               (Ndako e company)  165
  Large fish
                  (Mwenge e mbotu) 163     172BISFA8   13M02
  Spear that killed
  the chief´s child
   (Likongo ligwa
   na mwana e kumu) 164 173BISFA8    16M02
             ~Oar (Nkai)       155BISFA4
          Wake of boat in
                 water
                (Mongene mo dua)  164
          Fish (Mbongo)
    Method A and B    164
 

   Duck, 15-second         195
  Eagle                             28
   Ears                              126
  F                                    234  ~E 239BISFA8    ~ F 240BISFA8
   Fence, Unsupported    191
   Fish (Mnongo)                 161

   Fishnet  (moja)               139
       Trench
          (kole or libenge li lilebo)  139

    Part of chair
                      (Tamba ekenge)   140

        Spur of cock
                      (Gbele e jokolo)  140

       Star (Monjoto)            141   160BISFA8

       Pots (Mambonda)         141 165BISFA8
          Harvest moon
                                  (Dsese)    142      ~Eye of Peters´Duiker 161BISFA8

        Frog      (Libi)            148
 

        Pots of god
    (Mambondo)          146

       Parrot´s eyes
                (Misu ma kukulu)   146

       Water lizard
                        (Mbambi)          147

       Shield (Nguba)             147

        Antelope (Mondonga)   148

        Legs of Antelope
    (Pebeekiji mondonga)  148
 

         Constellation of
             stars
                       (Motungulungu)  142
         Part of
            Constellation
    (Motungulunga
                                    ekenge)    142

        Red and black
    snake (Mboa panga)  143

        Bird (Nbanjunbanju)     143

        Masket basket
           (for the back)
    (Tebe)        144

         Sun with its rays
    (Likanga)         144

         Hammock (Tipoi)        144

         Half moon (Sunge)      145

         Anteater with
                   scales (Kakolo)     146
 

   Fish                               231
   Fish, Big (Menge)           165   3M03
       Tall chair (Tamba)      166

   Fish tails                       127
   Fly                                 123
   Fourteen diamonds      235
   Fourteen diamonds
             doubly framed    235
   Fourteen diamonds
             with two loops    236
  Fox                                  26
  Frog                                27

   Girl (Mwamwali)              149
       Boy (Mwamomi)           150

   Jacob´s ladder                61
   Jacob´s ladder
            power-lifted           65
   Hammock of the frog   127
   Hand escape                 129
   Hangman´s noose         191  ~Man hanging by his neck 74K
  House                            29      /House   126
   Killerwhales,
                 Dissolving       190   (Doing the killerwhale 104K)
   Ladder, Double
                           framed  236
              with two steps   237
              with four steps  237
                version 2          238
               with six steps    237
   Leaves of a tree
    (Kasasasambambo)            156
   Long legs
                     (Mako maya)        149
   Lizard´s mouth              125
   Man who tried to
      cut off his moustache
      -and cut off his nose    189
   Moon (Sunge)                    151
   Mortar (Eboko)                170
  Mountain                         28
  Mouth, From
     Jacob´s ladder to a     210

   Mouth of leopard
    (Monoko mo swa)          152   10M07
       Mouth of elephant
    (Monoko mo mbongo)     152
       Large fishnet
    (Moja)           153
       Small fishnet (Etanga)   153
       Pelican (?)                    154

   No name figure               238

    Octopus                           231
        Cuttle                        231
                 crab                   231
   Osage two diamonds        58
   Overhand knots              127
  Plinthios Brokhos             92       3J01
   Rabbit´s ears                   195
   Rainbow (Monyama)          160
   Rastafarian six
                diamonds             64
   River steamer (Masa)      162
   Roof of house with
            beams
                 (Ndako mongingima)  162    175BISFA8
   Roots of the
     walking palm tree I     124
   Roots of the
     walking palm tree II    124
   Roundabout                    187
   Saw                                  125
   See-saw                            186
   Sewing machine              190 (an alternative method)        8D96  70I 80YI
   Shield that was
     destroyed by the
            young popopo
    (Nguba agwa na mwana
        e popopo (Ngwensali tribe))  159
   Shining star                       24
   Shooting star III              224    92YI   10/09
   Slide                                 187
   Spider on a thread         198
   Spider web                      129
   Spinal vertebrae             193
   Steeplechase
        (or, clap, the hero,
                   hiss the vilain) 200
 
 

  Star  (p 232)
invented by
KAZUO KAMIYA

   Stone  (Litai)                      155   (30) 92BISFA7   (Eric) 132BISFA8
   String figure
              (Gbele masape)             159    (233) 155BISFA8
                                                    67GIII  34B-(Darsie Not working) Richard
                188E 80Q 27XI  45
                                          25W  39T  (Eric)
                          ~M/N/W/Z 244BISFA8
  Sunrise                               25             ~Jackhammer 15D01
                                    ~Dowereperep      71XVI

   Swing                                185
       Haitch for "Appiness"188      ~ H 241BISFA8  ~H 336BISFA7

   Telephone
      (or, computerized packed-switching
               electronic conferencing and
            communications système)       201
   Telephone wires,
                   Overhead          192
   Toblerone                         189
   Tree                                 128
   Twenty-one diamonds    226
   Twenty-one diamonds
                  with tow loops  227

   Umbilicus (Dupu)               157
       Masket basket
             (worn on the back)
                            (Ndumba)           158
        Full moon (Desese)         158    (deux joueurs, Deux ficelles
/two people and two strings)

   Villages at war, Two
    (Bial egboto)                    156       104BISFA7
145BISFA8
                                         ~Fishing net   19BISFA7  (drawing)

   War spears
                  (Makongo ma bwela)  172
       Large antelope
                                 (Bondunga)  172 (three people and two loops)

   Waxed moustache            189
   Window                              23    2/11  (fifth: under middle strings)
  Woodpecker                      27
 
 
 
 
 
 

   TOURS DE FICELLE/TRICKS

   Hand escape                    129