String games appear to have arisen independently in many cultures throughout the world. These examples of Māori string games were documented in the April, September, and November  issues of The New Zealand journal of science and technology (1920) in a three-part article by Johannes C. Andersen.

The full text with instructions for how to make these and many other figures can be found here:

Part I
Part II
Part III

string game māori

Aug 09, 2019
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