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Caroline Furness Jayne

(Jayne, Caroline Furness, 1873-1909)

Caroline Augusta Jayne (née Furness; July 3, 1873 – June 23, 1909) was an American ethnologist who published the first book on string figures in 1906 titled String Figures: A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands. (From Wikipedia)

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Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940

Books by Caroline Furness Jayne:

Jayne, Caroline Furness, 1873-1909: String Figures: A Study of Cat's-cradle in Many Lands (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), contrib. by Alfred C. Haddon
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Jayne, Caroline Furness, 1873-1909: String Figures and How to Make Them: A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands (1906), contrib. by Alfred C. Haddon (illustrated HTML at stringfigures.info)

Additional books by Caroline Furness Jayne in the extended shelves:

Jayne, Caroline Furness, 1873-1909: String figures : a study of cat's-cradle in many lands (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906), also by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jayne, Caroline Furness, 1873-1909: String figures and how to make them; a study of cat's cradle in many lands (Dover Publications, 1962) (page images at HathiTrust)

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