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]

Honor Maude
Born
Honor Courtney King

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

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.