Dobjects Details Document

Title: Document - Ian Richter, to Dorothy Howard, List of Games, 1955
Description: Game names (and types): 'Arrow Chase', 'Paper Chase', 'Chasy' [Chasey] (chasing games), 'Cowboys' (imitation game), 'Brandy', 'Queenie', 'Kingy', 'Cricket', 'Football', 'Rugby', 'Basketball', 'Softball', 'Baseball', Tennis' (ball games), 'Marbles' (marbles), 'Hidy' [Hidey] (hiding game), 'Swimming' (physical play), 'Skippy' (skipping game), 'Broken Bottle' (unknown types) Alternative types: dramatic play Handwritten list of games compiled for Dr Dorothy Howard by Ian Richter, a student at Collier Primary School, in 1955. 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 list of games in pencil on lined paper. Text printed on one side only.
Control: HT 41173

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