- 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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Acknowledgements: I wish to thank for their considerable help both Frédéric Paradis, Licensing Officer, for supplying a list of films containing string figures and for bringing additional photographs to my notice, and Nathalie Guenette, Research Officer, for providing answers to enquiries and supplying information on images not yet catalogued.
Film: Salish Technology Project, reel 9 of 20
- Includes older man demonstrating cat's cradle, string game.
- Published 1972
- 26 minutes 05 seconds. Colour. 16mm.
- Reference number: P9.N.19 / V98-0049
Film: Compilation of various 1972 National Museum of Man projects, reels 5-7 of 39
- Reel 6: Cat's cradle - string games taught by Jerry Lewis.
- National Museum of Man (Canada)
- Published 1972
- 1 reel: 24 minutes 56 seconds. Colour. 16mm.
- Reference number: P9.M.5 / V98-0227
Film: Compilation of various 1972 National Museum of Man projects, reels 8-10 of 39
- Reel 9: Jerry Lewis showing kids how to do string games - cat's cradle.
- National Museum of Man (Canada)
- Published 1972
- 1 reel: 20 minutes 23 seconds. Colour. 16mm.
- Reference number: P9.M.6 / V98-0228
Film: Eskimo string figures
- Author: Arima, Eugene Yuji
- Published 1969
- 1 film 18 minutes 40 seconds. B&W. 16mm.
- Reference number: 0460
Sound recording of Arctic string figure song
- 2:612; IV-C-170T. Contains song sung by Elisapee Isuglutak while making Arctic string figures.
Sound recordings of Kimsquit string figure songs (3)
- Author: T.F. McIlwraith (Thomas Forsyth), 1924.
- 1:192; VII-X-1T. Contains song sung by Jim Pollard when making the string figure 'The Cripple'.
- 1:193; I-X-1T. Contains (side 1) song sung by Jim Pollard to accompany a string figure, and (side 2) song sung by Jim Pollard to accompany the string figure 'The Porcupine'.
- 1:194; VII-D-1T. Contains song sung by Jim Pollard to accompany a string figure.
Sound recording of Kwakiutl string figure song
- 1:1014; VII-E-16T. Contains song sung by Charlie Mack, a Lillooet from Mount Currie, of a song to go with string figure. Goes with film of same.
Photographs (119): Inuit, Central (Northern Québec & Ontario)
- Photographer: Marius Barbeau, 1948.
- 4x5 b&w negatives depicting string figures. Not individually titled.
- Reference numbers: 99767 to 99885.
Photographs (19): Ojibwa string figures (Ontario, Canada)
- Photographer: Frederick Wilkerson Waugh, 1916.
- 4x5 b&w negatives depicting string figures. Not individually titled with the exception of 36649 "String figure by Mrs. Hitchen". 45736 appears on photo CD2001-123.
- Reference numbers: 36599-36602, 36636-36637, 36644-36650, 36653-36655, 36657, 45736-45737.
Photographs (6) of string figures from the Yukon
- Photographer: Catherine McClennan.
- Date: April 1963.
- S71-907. Elsie Smith doing string figure.
- S71-1069. Martha Smith and a string figure.
- S71-1082. Martha Smith with string figure.
- S71-1084. String figure performed by Martha Smith.
- S71-1085. Elsie Isaac with string figure at Aishihik.
- S72-1655. Southern Tutchone woman showing string figure to children, Aishihik Village.
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