Honor Maude

Honor Maude
Born
Honor Courtney King

July 10, 1905
Wem, Shropshire, England
DiedApril 15, 2001 (aged 96)
Canberra, Australia
SpouseHenry Evans Maude

Honor Courtney Maude (née King; Wem, Shropshire; 10 July 1905 – 15 April 2001, Canberra, Australia)[1] was a British-Australian authority on Oceanic string figures,[2] having published Maude & Maude 1958, Maude & Wedgewood 1967, Firth & Maude 1970, Maude 1971, Maude 1978, Emory & Maude 1979, Maude 1984, and Beaglehole & Maude 1989.[3] Maude was a charter member of the International String Figure Association in 1978.[4]

She was the wife of British civil servant and anthropologist Henry Evans Maude, who was stationed on the Gilbert Islands (modern day Kiribati) between 1929 and 1939.[5] When visiting Pitcairn Island in 1940 and 1941, Maude and her husband collected approximately 1,500 Polynesian cultural items, which became the largest archaeological collection of Polynesian Pitcairn Island material.[5] Henry sparked her interest in string figures through lending her a copy of Kathleen Haddon's Cat's Cradles from Many Lands on their way to Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, where, on Ocean Island and later Beru.[citation needed]

Bibliography

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  • Firth, Raymond and Maude, Honor (1970). Tikopia String Figures. Royal Anthropological Institute. ISBN 978-0-900633-29-4.
  • Emory, Kenneth Pike and Maude, Honor (1979). String Figures of the Tuamotus. Canberra: Homa Press. ISBN 0-9596111-1-8.
  • Beaglehole, Pearl and Maude, Honor (1989). String Figures from Pukapuka. ISBN 978-0-9596111-3-7.
  • Maude, Honor C. and ISNA (2001). The String Figures of Nauru Island. ISBN 978-982-02-0148-4.

References

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  1. ^ Obituary, tandfonline.com; accessed 20 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Honor Maude", The Journal of Pacific History, p. 253. Vol. 36, No. 2, September 2001.
  3. ^ Averkieva, Julia P. and Sherman, Mark A. (1992). Kwakiutl String Figures, p.xiv. University of British Columbia; ISBN 0-7748-0432-7.
  4. ^ Maude, Honor C. (2001). The String Figures of Nauru Island, p. 160. "Reconstructed Methods for the Jayne and Garsia Figures" by Mark Sherman; ISBN 9789820201484.
  5. ^ a b Furey, Louise; Ash, Emma (2020). "'Old Stones for Cash'. The Acquisition History of the Pitcairn Stone Tool Collection in Auckland Museum". Records of the Auckland Museum. 55: 1–17. doi:10.32912/RAM.2020.55.1. ISSN 1174-9202. JSTOR 27008989. Wikidata Q106827302.