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
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Acknowledgements: I wish to thank Elizabeth Edwards, Curator Photograph and Manuscript Collections, and Claire Freeman, Curatorial Assistant, for providing assistance with items in the collections.

Photographs of string figure from Morobe Manki, Papua New Guinea

• Old Accession Number: BB.P.11.106-109
• 4 negatives
• Date: 1936
• Photographer: Beatrice Blackwood
• Cultural group: Anga Manki
• Making Cat's Cradle figure called kande = Bed.

Photograph of string figure from Morobe Manki, Papua New Guinea

• Old Accession Number: BB.P.11.163
• Negative
• Date: 1936
• Photographer: Beatrice Blackwood
• Cultural group: Anga Manki
• Nawatu playing cat's cradle

Photographs of string figure from Morobe Ekua, Papua New Guinea

• Old Accession Number: BB.P.11.328
• Negative
• Date: 1937
• Photographer: Beatrice Blackwood
• Cultural group: Anga Ekuti
• Boy making a string figure

Photograph of string figure from Bougainville Buka Tung, Papua New Guinea

• Old Accession Number: BB.P.2.61
• Negative
• Date: 1929-30
• Photographer: Beatrice Blackwood
• Cat's cradles, child playing cat's cradles sitting on pile of coconuts

Photograph of string figure from Bougainville Buka Tung, Papua New Guinea

• Old Accession Number: C.1.18.35 a
• Print, 55x87
• Date: 1929-30
• Photographer: Beatrice Blackwood
• Family group sitting on heap of gourds, boy doing waruru (cat's cradle)