twentythree,
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Is this the sort of thing you are looking for?
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Yes, exactly the thing.
The hawiian knots article had in it a lot of patterns I see from dong cats-cradel and related finger string manipulations. It matches very well with the kinds of knotting methods I have researched that native americans did.
The othe rlink, from the texas museum, showed a lot of coiling patterns. Especialy the net that was made just by elebowing strands together instead of using any actual knots. However, from my quick look around the website I wasent able to find WHERE these articles came from. I am assuming that the majority of them are african.
Any others?