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Cat's Cradle - Navajo String Game

submitted by lisacat

1 decade 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago

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The Navajo woman who made this lovely video just calls it the string game, but there are versions in many different cultures. In Japan it's ayatori, in the US it's jack-in-the-pulpit, or cat's cradle. The game was used as a motif in Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Cat's Cradle."

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strikes my imagination. TY man

Its not that exclusive. Its also been done for yonks in europe. God, my sister did it when we were kids...

This was big when I was in elementary school in the early seventies.

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