Museums and other institutions with string figure artefacts

- an inventory of string figures mounted on card, string figures on film, string figure photographs, and recordings of string figure songs

Compiled by Martin Probert

Other Archives with String Figure Artefacts
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Acknowledgement: I wish to thank Stan Florek for confirming a query in respect of the reference numbers. Mr Florek is the author of "F.D. McCarthy's String Figures from Yirrkala: a Museum Perspective", Records of the Australian Museum (1993) Supplement 17.

Yirrkala aborigine string figures (196) mounted on card/paper (Frederick D McCarthy collection)

• Reference numbers: E.83660-E.83851.
• 196 figures collected from Arnhem Land in 1948.

Photographs (185) taken in Arnhem Land (Frederick D McCarthy collection)

• Reference numbers: V8960-V8964.
• 185 photographs taken in 1948 of Yirrkala aborigine figure makers.