GAME: 'CORROBOREE' BOARDGAME
A folding cardboard and paper game board, offset colour printed with illustrations of Aboriginal people and titled 'CORROBOREE'. The illustrations on the interior surface feature domestic and cultural activities of Aboriginal people, and also Australian native animals. The game title 'CORROBOREE' is featured at the centre of the board inside an illustration of a boomerang. The game board folds vertically in half, and the outer covering is coloured green featuring a single image on the front cover of an Australian aboriginal man dancing.
A simple dice-based track game. Roll the dice and move the number of spaces indicated by the dice.
One of 6 games boards from the same donor.
The games belonged to donor's husband who grew up in Nedlands. He used the games in childhood in the 1940s, and then passed them down to their 3 children. In the late 1960s and 1970s the games were used at their family home in Shenton Park, and then retained until donated.
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