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Introduction
Welcome to the Dine String Games website! The information in this site comes from String Games of the Navajo, an article by Will Wirt and Mark Sherman, with cultural notes contributed by Mike Mitchell. The article was originally published in 2000 in Volume 7 of the Bulletin of the International String Figure Association, pp. 119-214. In this article the authors describe seventy-four string figures and tricks known to the Navajo Indians of Arizona. Methods for making sixty of these were gathered during the winter of 1999-2000 on a series of visits to the Navajo reservation. Thirty-four of these are new additions to the published literature on Navajo string games. Remarkably, methods for twenty of the twenty-seven Navajo string figures gathered by Caroline Furness Jayne nearly a century ago were still remembered, suggesting that string games are a stable element of Navajo material culture. The significance of string games among the Navajo is examined in an appendix to this article. Text of Introduction with Footnotes If you're interested in the activities of the International String Figure Association, or would like to become a member of that organization, we encourage you to visit them at:
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