Emily Lyons (Tookens) interviewed by John Meredith and Rob Willis in the John Meredith folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1913862
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Lyons, Emily, 1923-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research.
- Description:
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- 1990 Dec. 1
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 122 min.)
- Series:
- John Meredith folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording.
Emily Lyons speaks about her family background; American Indian heritage; her grandmother's medicine wagon; Lance Skuthorpe; acrobatic and contortionist acts; May Stokes, trapeze artiste; Gill's Rodeo; Lennon Bros Circus; how she was trained as an acrobat; other circus acts; the lack of food; difference between circus people and showmen; Showmen's Graveyard at Yass; camel trip into desert; trading of children; maltreatment; child murder at Temora; performing outside movie theatres; her nomadic existence today; life with her foster family; harassment by councils and police.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at Forbes, New South Wales on 1 December 1990.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary available.
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This belongs to the John Meredith folklore collection.
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- Until 2060 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1990
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