IDNO

P.9729.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Jenny Jones

Place

Europe British Isles; United Kingdom; England; East Anglia; Barrington

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort [B.A.A.S. Ethnographic Survey, 1893 - 1897]

Date

1896

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Photographer: A.C. Haddon probably took these photographs during his B.A.A.S. Ethnographic Survey, 1893-1897. The Photographer and Expedition fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 2/3/2010]

Bibliographical Reference: Study of Man, pl. A.C. Haddon 1896. [JD 26/10/2008]

Bibliographical Reference: ‘Jenny Jones’ is a children’s singing game from the Victorian period, and refers to a girl performing domestic duties before dying and being carried to her grave. See ‘Singing Games’ by Evelyn Carrington in The Folk-Lore Record, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1880), pp. 169-173. (Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of Folklore Enterprises, Ltd.) [Source: Full text available on JSTOR, JD 2/3/2010]