ALVAATA

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Same process, pattern and signification that the Niv SF Chitetaj.

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Citation

David Jabin, “ALVAATA,” String figures, accessed February 24, 2026, https://stringfigures.huma-num.fr/items/show/241.
  • Overall presentation

  • Name : ALVAATA

  • Creator : David Jabin

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

  • Date : 2019-2020


  • Information on the string figure

    • General presentation of the string figure

    This tridimensional string figure CHITETAJ reprensents a dry river bed. In most part of arid the paraguayan Chaco there is no permanent river. No obsanttly, the dry beds of temporary streams are a common element of the arid chaquean landscape. They are also very important places where it is possible to find water after the rain.

    Construction method (ISFA)

    1. Opening A.
    2. Proximally, insert 1345 into 2 loops.
    3. Transfer 2 loops to the wrists.
    4. Release 5.
    5. Pass the mouth away from you through the triangle made by Wn and 1f. With the teeth, seize Wf.
    6. Distally, insert 5 into the teeth loop and transfer this loop to 5. Return to position.
    7. Release W.
    8. Proximally, transfer 1 loop to 2.
    9. Twist 5 loop 90° anticlockwise 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)

    - Among the NIvacle people of the Pilcomayo Sturzenegger (2017: 208) describe the same process, pattern, signification and probably the same name (ČTETÁX: terreno bajo).
    -Braunstein (2015: 343-344), among the Maká people of teh Paraguay river, describe a string figure with the same process, pattern, signification (ČTETÁX: terreno bajo).
  • 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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