Summary
Game name (and type): 'Crows and Cranes' (chasing game)
Alternative type: running game
Handwritten description of the chasing game 'Crows and Cranes' composed for Dr Dorothy Howard by an unknown author, presumably a student at Ceduna Higher Primary School, circa March 1955. According to the author, 'Crows and Cranes' can be played by 20 or more children. The players are divided evenly into two teams, the 'Crows' and the 'Cranes'. The name of one team is alternatively called out and they proceed to chase the opposing team. If caught, a player must join that team. The author writes that the game is won when the chasing team consists of all but one of the opposition's team.
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 blue ink on lined paper. Text printed on one side only.
More Information
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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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Author
Unidentified, Ceduna, South Australia, Australia, circa Mar 1955
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Addressed To
Dr Dorothy Howard, Australia, 9 Mar 1955
It has been assumed that this game description is one of 40 descriptions referred to in a letter (HT41072) posted to Dr Howard on 9 March 1955. -
Collector
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Organisation Named
Ceduna Higher Primary School, Ceduna, South Australia, Australia
Note: this game description was located with other material identified as the work of students from Ceduna Higher Primary School. It has been presumed that this description also belongs to this category. -
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Overall Dimensions
175 mm (Width), 230 mm (Height)
Orientation: portrait
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