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
Survival, Origin and Mathematics of String Figures

Acknowledgement: I wish to thank Jill Hasell, Museum Assistant, Department of Ethnography of the British Museum, for drawing my attention to the National Sound Archive.

Sound recording: String figure song, Torres Strait 1961

• Label: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
• Recorded by Jeremy Beckett
• Call number: 1CA0012685

Sound recording: String figure song, Torres Strait, October 1963

• Recordist: Wolfgang Laade
• Contains string figure story/chant
• Call number: 1CDR0003400

Sound recording: String figure song, Torres Strait, November 1963

• Recordist: Wolfgang Laade
• Contains string figure songs and chants
• Call number: 1CDR0003401

Sound recording: String figure song, Torres Strait, December 1963

• Recordist: Wolfgang Laade
• Contains kamut wed (string figure songs) from Murray Island
• Call number: 1CDR0003408

Sound recording: String figure song, Australia 1964

• Recordist: Wolfgang Laade
• Performers: Bunai Marama and Sailor Auda (male singers) with percussion
• Location: Boigu
• Call number: 1CDR0003428