Bill Gray interviewed by Chris Woodland for the Chris Woodland folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2617
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Gray, Bill, 1940-2011, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1993-1994
- 12 tape reels ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Chris Woodland folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Gray describes his family background; growing up on a reserve, Bourke, NSW; dispute settling; living conditions; gypsies kidnapping children; Afghans; camels; schooling, racism; first job on station; mustering; buckjumping; deaths; horse breaking; min-min lights; strictness of old people; catching yabbies, fish; wild meat; Aboriginal customs to keep elements at bay; local dialect; funeral customs; sexual activities; Taylor family; local drovers; meatworks; Bourke old timers; marriage outside tribe; tribal markings; initiation ceremonies; toys; pointing the bone; Dougie Young; segregation; Enngonia pub; claypan dances; musical instruments; fights; Enngonia social conditions; emu eggs; wood carting; first visit to Sydney.
Gray talks about Bertie Powell, a boomerang maker; cooking echidna; alcohol; citizen's rights tickets; migrants chased with whip; government assistance to migrants; work & marriage; taxi business, Whitton, Qld.; payroll pickup; railway work; Cut-em, card game; band member, Rockhampton; rent problems; tin factory, 1965; oil rig off-siding, Tara Region, Qld.; no beds; water boring, United Geophysics, Vic.; move to Paraburdoo, WA; oil drilling, Peru, Ecuador; Citzua indians; explosives; racism against Negro; brothel; transporting rigs; drugs; Colombia; drilling, Indonesia, Thailand; helicopter transport; pumps; Dakota Drillers (water borers); cotton industry; racist incidents; mustering; whistle cocking; locating water; Land Syne.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at Mr Woodland's home, Canberra, A.C.T. on 27-28 Dec. 1993 & 2 Jan. 1994.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-217178219
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and transcript available (typescript, 144 leaves)
- Subject:
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- Gray, Bill, 1940-2011 -- Interviews
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Bourke Region -- Interviews
- Agricultural laborers -- Australia -- Interviews
- Oil industry workers -- Australia -- Interviews
- Oil industry workers -- South America -- Interviews
- Well drillers -- Australia -- Interviews
- Bourke Region (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions
- Bourke Region (N.S.W.) -- Race relations
- Other authors/contributors:
- Woodland, Chris, 1938-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Chris Woodland folklore collection.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2063 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1993
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