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Title: Document - Janice Pinchen, Addressed to Dorothy Howard, Transcription of a Riddle, 1954-1955
Description: Game type: riddle Alternative types: jokes, language play Handwritten transcription of a riddle composed for Dr Dorothy Howard by Janice Pinchen, a student at East Camberwell Girls Secondary School, in 1954-1955. The riddle comprises the following: 'Q: What did the man do when he thought he was going to die? Answer: He went into the living room.' 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 blue ink on lined paper. Text written on one side of page; features words underlined in pencil.
Control: HT 41375

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