Stan Boyd recites a poem and recalls his days as a drover and stockman [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3313788
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Boyd, Stan, 1923-2010, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1971
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 45 min.)
- Series:
- Wendy Lowenstein Australian folklore and social history collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Stan Boyd speaks about scratch pulling; chopping wood on the chest; carrying heavy weights for a dare; Paddy Fox, a squatter on Crown Land at Pine Tree; cleanskins; stock always travelling east; roping pole; Cooktown races; mothers's skills; red 'turkey' twill; Native troopers; 'lava lava'; stockman's wages, compares the difference between black and white; women not paid at all; Brown at Weipa; York Downs; Paddy Fox and the Crooked Bangtail Muster (duplicated?); George Kermode.
- Partial contents:
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- SIDE 1: Games: Mumble-the-peg
- Knuckle bones
- Spinning tops
- Card games
- Entertainment at the pub, tipstake (with torpedo shaped bottle). Poem: The boy stood on the burning deck.
- Biography/History:
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Stan Boyd (dec.), ex-drover, timber cutter, bush poet and folk musician from Cooktown, Nth. Qld. during the first half of the 20th century.
- Notes:
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- Recorded by Wendy Lowenstein.
- Continuation of the Stan Boyd recordings for the Wendy Lowenstein collection held at ORAL TRC 2915/9-11, ORAL TRC 2915/12
- Recorded on Aug. 01, 1971 at Cooktown, Nth. Qld.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-217156413
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Drovers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Lowenstein, Wendy, 1927-2006, interviewer
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2041 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1971
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