Summary

Game names (and types): 'Skippy' (skipping game), 'Hoppy' (hopscotch), 'Leap Frog' (jumping game), 'Jigsaw Puzzels' [Puzzles] (play with toys), 'Crow and Crane', 'Poison Tiggy', 'Cat and the Mouse' (chasing games), 'Fish' (card game), 'Doe[?] Races', 'Races' (racing games), 'Basket Ball', 'Tennis' 'Pase Ball' [Baseball?], 'Tunnel Ball', 'Rugbie' [Rugby], 'Keep It Off', 'Pig in the Middle', 'Dodge' (ball games), 'Loido' [Ludo] (board game), 'Twos and Threes', 'What Have You Got to Sell Me Today?' (unknown types)
Alternative types: play with props/equipment

Handwritten list of games compiled for Dr Dorothy Howard by Pam Roper, 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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