Summary
Game type: marbles
Game terminology: 'Blood Real'
Handwritten description of terminology employed in marbles games composed for Dr Dorothy Howard by Rodney Dingle, a student at Collier Primary School, in 1955. Dingle describes a 'Blood Real', a type of marble featuring the colour red. Dingle includes a hand drawn and coloured illustration of a 'Blood Real'.
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 description in pencil on lined paper. Features a hand drawn and coloured illustration along upper portion; 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
Rodney Dingle - Collier Government Primary School, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 1955
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Organisation Named
Collier Government Primary School, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Overall Dimensions
215 mm (Width), 232 mm (Height)
Orientation: portrait
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