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 Susan Woodburn, Special Collections Librarian, Barr Smith Library, for providing the following information concerning photographs and mounted figures in the H.E. and H.C. Maude papers.

Photographs of string figures from Nauru

• Reference number: MSS 0003 Series D/1.
• Donated 1998 by Honor Maude, in the H.E. and H.C. Maude papers.
• A selection of photographs for the publication String Figures of Nauru Island. [It is not clear whether these photographs include those of the mounted Nauruan figures taken by Captain R.C. Garcia which appear in Plates V -VIII.]

Board of string figures from Nauru and New Guinea

• Reference number: MSS 0003 Series D/12.
• Donated 1998 by Honor Maude, in the H.E. and H.C. Maude papers.
• Mounted on a board (against wall of Strongroom): 11 string figures, 10 photographs of New Guinea figures, 12 photographs of Naruran figures. The figures on the board are not individually identified, nor dated. The figures are made of natural string, not hair, and are presumed to be the work of Honor Maude. Mrs Maude authored or co-authored seven books and numerous articles on Oceanian string figures.