Dobjects Details Document

Title: Document - Wendy Bonwick, to Dorothy Howard, Description of Ball Game 'Two Ball', 1955
Description: Game name (and type): 'Two Ball' (ball game) Alternative name: play with prop/equipment Handwritten game description compiled by 11 year old Wendy Bonwick, a student at Carlisle Government Primary School, for Dr Dorothy Howard in 1955. Bonwick describes 'Two Ball', a ball game which involves throwing two tennis balls at a wall. 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 pencil on lined paper. Text printed on one side only.
Control: HT 41052

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