Dobjects Details Document

Title: Document - Glenys Carlon(?), to Dorothy Howard, Description of 'Fiddlesticks', 1955
Description: Game name (and type): 'Fiddlesticks' (play with prop/equipment) Handwritten game description compiled by Glenys Carlon(?), a student at Carlisle Government Primary School, for Dr Dorothy Howard in 1955. Carlon describes how her favourite game 'Fiddlesticks' is played. 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. Page features a green pencil border on three sides.
Control: HT 41054

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