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

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Acknowledgement: I wish to thank Martin Lanthier, Reference Archivist, for listening to the soundtrack of the film below in order to supply information concerning the figures depicted. Mr Lanthier adds that at present (December 2002) the databases are not comprehensive: further items may exist in the archive.

Film: Eskimo Arts and Crafts

• Reference number: 1977-0207 (ISN 204638).
• Shot in Quebec in 1943, 756 ft, 22 minutes, b&w, sound.
• Includes Inuit string figures. Martin Lanthier writes that only 24 seconds are dedicated to the string figures; two figures are shown; the first is identified by the narrator as 'caribou hunt in string'; the second is not identified, but seems to be an animal.
• National Film Board of Canada production.

Photograph entitled "Woman making string figure"

• Photographer: R.F. Waugh, 1916.
• Accession number: 1965-012. Reproduction number: PA-181707 (copy negative number).
• Original item number: 1-7. Location number: 5764.