Summary

Game type: riddles, tongue twisters
Alternative types: jokes, language play

Handwritten transcriptions of three riddles and two tongue twisters composed for Dr Dorothy Howard by Jennifer Callister, a student at East Camberwell Girls Secondary School, in 1954-1955. The two tongue twisters begin: 'Your brother Bob gave my brother Bob a bob...' and 'She sells sea shells...'.

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 annotation in black ink on lined paper. Features lines ruled in red pencil; text written on one side of page.

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