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A line drawn without lifting the finger.
Also known as: Chokwe sand drawing
The Chokwe sand drawing traced in one continuous line around a grid of dots.
Is traced in sand by Chokwe storytellers as the visual accompaniment to a narrative.
Contexts: History, Public information
Drawn in a single unbroken line by rule, which constrains which patterns are possible on a given grid — the same generative principle as the threshold patterns of South India, reached independently on another continent.
Contexts: History, Public information
The drawing accompanies a story told while it is made, so the line's progress and the narrative's are the same event.
Contexts: History, Public information
A grid of dots pressed into sand, then a single continuous line traced around them without lifting the finger and without retracing, closing where it began.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.