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 R.K. Headland, Archivist and Curator, for providing information on the condition of the film (8 Dec 1999).

Film: Sir James Wordie Expedition 1934 - a

• Reference number: P78/1/1-3.
• 3 reels, b&w, silent. The film is in a "decidedly delicate state"; no video copy has been made.
• Reel 1, shot in Greenland, includes Inuit string figures of bird and duck.

Film: Sir James Wordie Expedition 1934 - b

• Reference number: P82/29/2.
• 21 reels, b&w, silent. The shotlist cannot be located, so at present it cannot be said whether any string figures are included.