Children Playing Piggyback |
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| Title : | Children Playing Piggyback |
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| Source : | B 48013 | ||
| Date of creation : | ca. 1900 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
Children playing piggyback races. Piggyback racing, along with three-legged races, sack races and egg and spoon races were a popular feature of organised picnics or community fun days. Here two boys, each carrying a younger girl on their back, race each other over a distance. For the boys the object is to carry their burden the required distance without dropping them; for the carried child, it is to hang on securely without threatening to strangle their partner. |
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| Coverage year : | 1900 |
| Region : | Adelaide metropolitan area |
| Further reading : | Douglas, Norman. London street games, London: Chatto and Windus, 1931 Dow, Gwyn and June Factor (eds.) Australian childhood: an anthology, South Yarra, Vic.: McPhee Gribble, 1991 The endless playground: celebrating Australian childhood, compiled and edited by Paul Cliff; with introductory essays by Robert Holden and features by Jack Bedson ... [et al.], Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2000 Kociumbas, Jan. Australian childhood: a history, St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1997 Opie, Iona. Children's games in street and playground: chasing, catching, seeking, hunting, racing, duelling, exerting, daring, guessing, acting, pretending, London: Oxford University Press, 1969 |
| Exhibitions and events : | State Library of South Australia: Mortlock Wing exhibitions. To be a child August 2004- |
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