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Tasam kola ‘Grasshopper’s legs’

Layer: Awiakay string figures
Link back to source:: https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/051_tasam_kola
Type: Other

Details

Latitude: -4.71979
Longitude: 143.6055
Start Date: 2018-08-16
End Date: 2018-08-16

Description

This string figure represents grasshopper’s legs (literally, grasshopper’s hands). At the same time as being a distinct string figure design, tasam kola is also an indigenously recognised and named sub-procedure. As a sub-procedure it is performed in the following way: pull the outer (dorsal) sides of 2∞ a little bit away from the fingers, insert R2∞ into L2∞ and swap the loops (L2∞ is hung on R2 and R2∞ is hung on L2), then pull palms apart again Images: 02: tasam kola ‘grasshopper’s legs’, final design 03: tasam grasshopper

Sources

tc3705

Source

https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/051_tasam_kola

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