RRALNGIEN BURBUR, ears of burbur

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Item: WARMUPTA, bread fruit stem related through common consecutive operations (sub-procedure): This Item

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Eric Vandendriessche and Agnès Henri , “RRALNGIEN BURBUR, ears of burbur,” String figures, accessed February 24, 2026, https://stringfigures.huma-num.fr/items/show/110.
  • Overall presentation

  • Name : RRALNGIEN BURBUR, ears of burbur

  • Creator : Eric Vandendriessche and Agnès Henri

  • Contributor(s) : Mata, village of Fona, Ambrym, Vanuatu

  • Date : 2016-2017


  • Information on the string figure

    • General presentation of the string figure

    burbur means "tuft of hair/feather". Whereas rralngien means "ears". Therefore, this string figure represents the ears of burbur ; in this context burbur referring to a little animal with a tuft/crest of hair/feather. burbur is also the name of a small bird (with crest of feather). Anyone can observe these birds during the season where the "nakavika" trees come into flowers ; the burbur bird feeding on these flowers nectar.

    Construction method (ISFA)

    1. Opening A1.
    2. Pass 5 distal to 2 loops. Proximally, insert 5 into 1 loops, pick up 1f and return.
    3. Release 1.
    4. Pass 1 distal to 2 loops, pick up proximal 5n. Navaho 5.
    5. Pass 1 proximal to 2 loops. Proximally, insert 1 into 5 loops, hook up 5f and return.
    6. Release 5.
    7. Pass 345 proximal to 2 loops, hook down both distal and proximal1f.
    8. Proximally insert 1 into 2 loops. Navaho 1.
    9. Distally, transfer 2 loops to 1.
    10. Caroline extension.
    11. Release 1.
    12. 1 pick up O1+.
    13. Release 2
    14. 2 hook up 345n.
    15. Palms away, release 1, extend.

    Construction method (symbolic writing)

    $\underline{O}.A_{1}:\overleftarrow{m}5(2\infty):\underline{i}5(1\infty):p5(1f):r1:\overrightarrow{m}1(2\infty): p1(l5n):N5:\underrightarrow{m}1(2\infty):\underline{i}1(5\infty):\overline{h}1(5f):r5\mid \underleftarrow{m}345(2\infty):\underline{h}345(1f^{2}):\underline{i}1(2\infty):N1^2:\overline{TF}(2\infty, 1):C_{e}: r1: p1(O1+):r2: \overline{h}2(345n):vr^{+}/(RH):vr^{-}(LH):r1\mid$

    Mathematical concepts involved

    Symmetry
  • Item references

  • Key words : String figures, Ambrym Island (Vanuatu)

  • Publisher : Laboratory SPHERE (UMR 7219, University of Paris & CNRS)

  • Rights : Creative Commons / Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA

  • Format : jpeg, eaf, mp4

  • Language : English, North Ambrymese language

  • Location : Village of Fona, North Ambrym, Vanuatu, South Pacific

  • Description : Ambrymese string figure, method of construction, linguistic data, cultural aspects

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