Summary

Game names (and type): 'Hide and Seek', 'Hide Go Seek', 'Hidey Go Seek' (hiding games)

Typed game description originally written by Christine Brown in a letter to Dr Dorothy Howard in October 1954 (HT41043). Dr Howard has typed Brown's description onto an index card. In Brown's letter to Dr Howard, she refers to games played by her 9 year old brother Harold in Brisbane, making particular reference to alternative wording and national variations. In this example, Brown describes the different names of hiding games used by children in Brisbane.

One of a collection of letters describing a children's game written to children's Folklorist Dorothy Howard between 1954 and 1955. Dr Howard came to Australia in 1954-55 as an American Fulbright scholar to study Australian children's folklore. She travelled across Australia for 10 months collecting children's playground rhymes, games, play artefacts, etc. This letter, together with the other original fieldwork collected by Dr Howard during this period, is preserved in the Dorothy Howard Collection manuscript files, part of the Australian Children's Folklore Collection (ACFC), Archive Series 3. The ACFC is an extensive collection documenting children's folklore and related research.

Physical Description

Typed game description in black ink on card. Text printed on one side only.

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