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Description

English: Possibly the first, and best-known book on string figures. (Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)

Date

1906 (original publication).

Source

Scan of the 1962 edition, an unabridged republication of the original edition.

Author

Caroline Furness Jayne (1873-1909), Introduction and some photos by Alfred Cort Haddon (1855-1940), other photos are either "Courtesy of Mr. S. C. Simms" (that is Stephen Chapman Simms (1863-1937) of the Field Colombian Museum, Chicago (now the Field Museum of Natural History)), or by William Henry Furness III (1866-1920), the brother of the principal author.

Permission
(Reusing this file)

The original publication was made in 1906 in the US and is therefore in the public domain. The 1962 edition should not have gained new copyright. Even if it did, it was published before 1978 without a copyright notice and is therefore in the public domain by now.

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Licensing

The author died in 1940, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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