Recreation -- Games -- String games and string figures

Aboriginal man wearing a hat holds up a looped string figure

UQFL489-Series G-Subseries 3-Item 26
Item
1934

An Aboriginal Australian man, wearing a hat, holds up a looped string figure at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement. His full face is in view but partly shadowed from the hat.

Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Aboriginal man's hands holding up a multiple diamond string figure

UQFL489-Series G-Subseries 3-Item 25
Item
1934

Part of Caroline Kelly Papers

Close-up of an Aboriginal Australian man's hands holding up a multiple diamond string figure at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement. The lower half of his face is also in view.

Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Aboriginal man's hands making a diamond string figure

UQFL489-Series G-Subseries 3-Item 24
Item
1934

Part of Caroline Kelly Papers

Close-up of an Aboriginal Australian man's hands making a diamond string figure at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement. The lower half of his face is also in view.

Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Aboriginal man's hands holding up a triple diamond string figure

UQFL489-Series G-Subseries 3-Item 23
Item
1934

Part of Caroline Kelly Papers

Close-up of an Aboriginal Australian man's hands making a triple diamond string figure at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement. The lower half of his face is also in view.

Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Aboriginal woman wearing a hat holds up a triple diamond string figure

UQFL489-Series G-Subseries 3-Item 22
Item
1934

Part of Caroline Kelly Papers

An Aboriginal Australian woman, wearing a hat, holds up a triple diamond string figure at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement. Her full face is in view but partly shadowed from the hat.

Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Two Aboriginal men holding up a string figure, a third Aboriginal man examines it

UQFL489-Series G-Subseries 3-Item 21
Item
1934

Part of Caroline Kelly Papers

Two Aboriginal Australian men, standing side-on to the camera, hold up a string figure between them while a third Australian Aboriginal man stands back, front-on to the camera, and examines it. Taken at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement. A verandah is in the background.

Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Aboriginal woman's hands making a double loop string figure

UQFL489-Series G-Subseries 3-Item 20
Item
1934

Part of Caroline Kelly Papers

Close-up of an Aboriginal Australian woman's hands making a double loop string figure at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement. The lower half of her face is also in view.

Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Aboriginal woman's hands making a double diamond string figure

UQFL489-Series G-Subseries 3-Item 19
Item
1934

Part of Caroline Kelly Papers

Close-up of an Aboriginal Australian woman's hands making a double diamond string figure at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement. The lower half of her face is also in view.

Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Three Aboriginal men making string figures

UQFL489-Series G-Subseries 3-Item 18
Item
1934

Part of Caroline Kelly Papers

Three Aboriginal Australian men standing together, two standing side-on and one man standing front-on, making string figures with their hands at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement. A verandah is in the background.

Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Aboriginal man's hands making a string figure

UQFL489-Series G-Subseries 3-Item 17
Item
1934

Part of Caroline Kelly Papers

Close-up of an Aboriginal Australian man's hands making a string figure at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement. The fingers of one hand are spread and the string is looped around each finger.

Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Fryer Library Manuscripts

Recreation -- Games -- String games and string figures

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