Summary

Game names (and types): 'Marbles' (marbles), 'Hop-Scotch' (hopscotch), 'Skippy', 'French and English' (skipping games),'Nine-Pins' (play with props/equipment), 'Dolls', 'Trains', 'Boats' (play with toys), 'Cowboys and Indians', 'Cops and Robbers', 'Dressing Up', 'Schools' (imagination games), 'Ball', 'Donkey', 'Queenie' (ball games), 'Hidey' (hiding game), 'Chasey', 'Crows and Cranes', 'Scarecrow' (chasing games), 'Oranges and Lemons', 'Ring-a-Ring-a-Rosy' (language play), 'Put the Tail on the Pig' (party game), 'Statues' (elimination game), 'Leap Frog' (jumping game), 'Aeroplane', 'Red Indians', 'Frickering' (unknown types)
Alternative types: dramatic play, rhyming games, action rhymes

Handwritten list of games compiled for Dr Dorothy Howard by Margaret Paull, presumably a student at Collier Primary School, in 1955.

One of a collection of letters describing a children's games 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 list of games in pencil on lined paper. Text printed on one side only.

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