Elise Wiesner interviewed by John Meredith for the John Meredith folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2939486
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Wiesner, Elise, 1898-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use.
- Description:
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- 1988 Jul. 5
- 4 sound tape reels (ca. 91 min.)
- Series:
- John Meredith folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording: Elise Wiesner discusses her life and sings folk songs of the Walla Walla district, New South Wales. Wiesner talks about leaving South Australia in 1906, rail from Murray Bridge to Melbourne then Albury and Gerogery, Beaver Rock Farm at Walbundry, 3 miles walk to school, mother died at birth, lost in fog, school rules, learning songs, singing at home, speaking English and German, the homestead, thatched roof in S. Aust., no tank water, novelty of hearing rain on the iron roof in N.S.W., meals and traditions of eating, traditional German pig killing, wedding tradition, tin kettling, Indian hawkers of the district, stripping the crop, winnowing by hand machines, bagging and sewing wheat as a family effort, railing the crop away, wheat, oats and peas, shearing by hand, treading down the bales, mother's needlecraft, clothes washing, ironing with flat irons, charcoal iron, a stove, housebuilding materials, mixing adobe clay with a horse, dances, the Seidels introducing dancing after federslischen parties, "introducing the devil to Walbundry", dance performed.
- Full contents:
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- Singing: Kleiner Mann und grosse Frau
- Recitation: Hoppa, hoppa reide (nursery rhyme)
- Going to school
- Zu-sa, zu-sa ("Pussy cat, pussy cat)
- Conversation: Explains the saying "silly donkey"
- Recitation: Hoppa, hoppa reide (repeat)
- School song (learnt in 1907).
- Notes:
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- Recorded by John Meredith with Rob Willis.
- Recorded at Walla Walla, N.S.W. on July 5, 1988.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-221517691
- Subject:
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- Wiesner, Elise, 1898- -- Interviews
- Folk singers -- New South Wales -- Walla Walla -- Interviews
- Folk songs -- New South Wales -- Walla Walla
- Folk songs, German -- New South Wales -- Walla Walla
- German Australians -- New South Wales -- Walla Walla -- Social life and customs
- Singing
- Walla Walla (N.S.W.) -- History
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 1988
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