HEEYAMAC (2), doca fruits

Comment(s) about relation(s)

JEE YAMOC (2) represents the same fruit and have the same name as another closed enlhet string figure: JEE YAMOC (1). The openings of this two strings games are very differents and the final patterns are slighlty differents.

JEE YAMOC (1) have identical process and pattern than Guarani Ñandeva figure SUPUA  who represents also fruits of the same climbing plant species.

Relations

Item Relations

Item: SAJIYÔ (2), doca fruits Same string figure procedure: This Item
Item: HEEYAMAC (1), doca fruits related through similar or identical final pattern (with a different construction): This Item

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Citation

David Jabin, “HEEYAMAC (2), doca fruits,” String figures, accessed February 24, 2026, https://stringfigures.huma-num.fr/items/show/239.
  • Overall presentation

  • Name : HEEYAMAC (2), doca fruits

  • Creator : David Jabin

  • Contributor(s) : Ernesto Unruh, village of Belen, Yalve Sanga , Central Chaco, Paraguay

  • Date : 2019-2020


  • Information on the string figure

    • General presentation of the string figure

    This string figure represents 4 fruits of the doca (Morrenia odorata) climbing plant.

    Construction method (ISFA)

    1. String on the wrists.
    2. 1 pass distally to Wf and enter proximally to W loop.
    3. Extend.
    4. 5 pick up 1f.
    5. Pass R1 above left hand and insert it distally to LW loop, picking up the dorsal W string. Return.
    6. Return to position while releasing LW.
    7. Repeat 5 and 6 step with other hand.
    8. Release 5.
    9. Twist 1 loop 180° clockwise and proximally insert 1 and 5.
    10. Proximally, insert 1 into 2 loops (close to indices), pick up 2n and return.
    11. Navaho 1.
    12. Distally, insert 2 into the little triangles near the thumbs.
    13. Turn the palms away while releasing 5.
    14. Extend.

    Close references (bibliography)

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  • Item references

  • Key words : String figures, Enlhet, paraguayan Chaco

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

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

  • Format : jpeg, mp4, text

  • Language : Enlhet, spanish

  • Location : Village of Belen, Yalve Sanga , Central Chaco, Paraguay, South America

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

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