Summary

Game type: 'Puss-Puss' (party game)
Alternative types: blindfold games

Handwritten description of the party game 'Puss-Puss' compiled by Eleanor Connelly, a student at East Fremantle Government Primary School, for Dr Dorothy Howard between 1954-1955. Connelly describes 'Puss-Puss' as a party game suitable for boys and girls of any age, which requires a spacious room, a large handkerchief, and a cushion. She explains that players sit in a circle as one child is blindfolded and given the cushion. Connelly writes that the blindfolded child proceeds to call 'puss-puss' to which the other children reply 'meow-meow'. The blindfolded child must locate one of the other players, place the cushion of their lap and sit down.

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 black ink on lined paper. Features text written on one side only.

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