CARAMELO, candy
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Citation
David Jabin, “CARAMELO, candy,” String figures, accessed February 24, 2026, https://stringfigures.huma-num.fr/items/show/243.
- Overall presentation
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Name : CARAMELO, candy
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Creator : David Jabin
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Contributor(s) : Elsa de Unruh, village of Belen, Yalve Sanga , Central Chaco, Paraguay
Clotilde Unruh, village of Efeso, Yalve Sanga , Central Chaco, Paraguay -
Date : 2019-2020
- Information on the string figure
Among the young enlhet people, this figure represents a commercial bobbin wrapped in its twisted paper. Selon les personnes agées cette figure représentait auparavant le fruit d'un arbre.
1. Opening A.
2. Release R2 loop and extend.
3. Release R1 loop and R5 loop, allowing them to hang.
4. Away from you, pass R2345 proximal to L2n and L2f, grasp L5n and coming back proximal to L2n and L2f, place it between L1 and L2.
5. Toward you, pass R2345 proximal to L2n and L2f and the, grasp L5n where it is hanging (after passing between L1 and L2). Then coming back proximal to all strings, place it between L1 and L2.
6. R2 and R1 rectively hook down the palmar L1n and L5n.
7. Strongly extend.
8. Repeat steps 4 to 7 as many times as possible, (it depends on the length of the string, 3 to 9 times seems fine).
9. After reaching the maximum number of reiterations, proximally insert R1 and R5 respectively into L1 and L5 hanging loops.
10. With the right hand slowly release all the L1 and L5 loops.
11. Proximally reinsert L1 and L5 in the to spaces on each side of L2 loop respectively between the ex L1f and the ex L5n.
12. Extend slowly.
2. Release R2 loop and extend.
3. Release R1 loop and R5 loop, allowing them to hang.
4. Away from you, pass R2345 proximal to L2n and L2f, grasp L5n and coming back proximal to L2n and L2f, place it between L1 and L2.
5. Toward you, pass R2345 proximal to L2n and L2f and the, grasp L5n where it is hanging (after passing between L1 and L2). Then coming back proximal to all strings, place it between L1 and L2.
6. R2 and R1 rectively hook down the palmar L1n and L5n.
7. Strongly extend.
8. Repeat steps 4 to 7 as many times as possible, (it depends on the length of the string, 3 to 9 times seems fine).
9. After reaching the maximum number of reiterations, proximally insert R1 and R5 respectively into L1 and L5 hanging loops.
10. With the right hand slowly release all the L1 and L5 loops.
11. Proximally reinsert L1 and L5 in the to spaces on each side of L2 loop respectively between the ex L1f and the ex L5n.
12. Extend slowly.
- Item references
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Key words : String figures, Enlhet, paraguayan Chaco
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Publisher : Laboratory SPHERE (UMR 7219, University of Paris & CNRS)
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Rights : Creative Commons / Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA
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Format : jpeg, mp4, text
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Language : Enlhet, spanish
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Location : Yalve Sanga , Central Chaco, Paraguay, South America
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Description : Enlhet string figure, method of construction, linguistic data, cultural aspects