A second person is needed to complete the last step. Hina's Basket . Running Nose appears in a film about string figures. Honor Maude is responsible for transcribing methods from the film. It is quite a novel string figure that always seems to evoke two extreme reactions.
Most observers find it either funny, or offensive.
This figure, which represents a pair of trees with their roots tangled together, is a variation of a traditional Kwakiutl string figure called Two Trees . The Kwakiutl people live on the northwest coast of North America, just south of the Alaskan panhandle. Many people know of the two player game of Cat's Cradle , but in the realm of one player string figures there is also the lesser known Solo Cat's Cradle . In Solo Cat's Cradle , a single player starting from a certain string arrangement makes a series of other string figures. The last figure in the series returns the player to the initial string arrangement where the cycle can be repeated endlessly.