Editing String figure (section)

==Terminology==
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[[File:Tasse3.jpg|thumb|The "cup and saucer" begins with ''opening A'', and step 3 (illustrated) is a ''Navajo''.<ref>Gryski (1983), p.18-9. {{ISBN|0590254863}}.<!--ibid--></ref>]]
[[File:Anatomical string figure locations, both hands.png|thumb|Anatomical string figure locations, both hand. Labels indicate string/loop location (near/far, below/above, between hands, back of hand/(palm side)) unambiguously.]]
[[File:Heraklas Plinthios Brokhos Jaw Sling.jpg|thumb|right|[[Heraklas]]' "''Plinthios Brokhos''" made in a doubled cord. Resembles "A Hole in the Tree" with different crossings.]]

While in string figure literature there are many phrases often used, there may be some variation with the fingers, loops, and strings indicated in different ways. A "loop" consists of the strings that go around the back of a finger, multiple fingers, or another body part such as the wrist. Some authors name the strings, fingers and their loops (near middle finger string, right index finger, pinky loop, for example), while others number them (3n, R1, 5 loop).{{Citation needed|date = January 2016}} One of the first methods of recording figures and sets of terminology was an anatomical system proposed in "A Method of Recording String Figures and Tricks" by [[W. H. R. Rivers]] and [[Alfred Cort Haddon|A. C. Haddon]].<ref>"A Method of Recording String Figures and Tricks". W. H. R. Rivers; A. C. Haddon. ''Man'', Vol. 2. (1902), pp. 146-153. ''Man'' is currently published by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.</ref> Though location or locations of a string are most often indicated by casual systems of terms such as "near" or "far", the Rivers and Haddon system is far less ambiguous, though this may be unnecessary for the most common, illustrated, figures.<ref>Averkieva and Sherman (1992), p.xxviii. {{ISBN|978-0-7748-0432-5}}.<!--ibid--></ref>

Below are some common{{Citation needed|date = January 2016}} moves, openings, and extensions.
*Openings
** '''Murray Opening'''/'''Index Opening''': The loop is grasped with the middle, ring, and little fingers so that there is a couple inches of string between them. These fingers are put together so there is a circle made by the overlapping strings. The index finger is inserted from the far side into the circle, and the index finger rotated upwards, circling towards the body.
** '''Position 1''': The ''untwisted'' loop is put on the thumb and little fingers.
** '''Opening A''': Following from Position 1, the right index finger picks up the string on the left hand going between the thumb and the little finger. The left index finger then goes between both strings of right index finger, and picks up the string going from the right thumb to little finger.
** '''Opening B''': Place the loop around one's thumbs, then insert the left index proximally into the thumb loop, taking up the left ulnar thumb string. Insert one's right finger proximally into the left index loop, taking up the radial string and forming an x.
** '''Japanese Opening''': The Japanese Opening is similar to Opening A, however the strings are picked up with the middle fingers instead of the index fingers.
*Extensions
** '''Caroline Extension''': Starting with a loop on the thumb, the string is lifted in the nook of the index finger, then pinched between the index finger and thumb.
*Moves
**Pick up
** '''Navajo leap''', "navajoing", or "Navajo": Given two loops on one finger, the lower loop is moved over the upper loop and released from the finger.
**Release
**Transfer
**Rotate
**Share
**{{lang|esx|'''Katilluik'''}} ([[Eskimo–Aleut language|Eskimo–Aleut]] for:put two things together): the thumbs loops are combined before strings are drawn through them