Summary
Game name (and type): 'Triangle Killy' (marbles)
Alternative name: play with prop/equipment
Handwritten game description compiled by Bob Bresland, a student at Carlisle Government Primary School, for Dr Dorothy Howard in 1955. Bresland describes his favourite game, a marbles game called 'Triangle Killy'. Bresland discusses the game's rules, the players and the terminology used such as 'marbles', 'doogs', 'allies', 'aggots' and 'dribby line'.
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
Handwritten game description in pencil on lined paper. Text printed on one side only.
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Collection Names
Australian Children's Folklore Collection, Dorothy Howard Collection
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Acquisition Information
Cultural Gifts Donation from Dr June Factor, 18 May 1999
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Acknowledgement
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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Bob Bresland - Carlisle Government Primary School, Carlisle, Greater Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 1955
Date attributed based on Dr. Howard's travel itinerary; she visited Western Australia in early 1955. -
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Overall Dimensions
185 mm (Width), 304 mm (Height)
Orientation: portrait
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