- Bib ID:
- 1351283
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Templeman, Bruce, 1926-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1993 Aug. 4
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 159 min.)
- Series:
- John Meredith folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Discussion on the oral history and traditions of shearing from 1940 to the present day, discussion includes rates of pay, modernisation of the industry, class distinction in Queensland, shearing shed slang and stories.
- Partial contents:
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- Recitation: The shedhand's lament (by Chick Pickrell)
- Mitchie's talking shearers (by Babs Vincent)
- He was boasting of his shearing
- Shearing boots (learnt from Bill Higgins in 1940s)
- Sweet Jesus, teach me to shear two sheep at a time (fragment)
- Notes:
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- Recorded by Rob Willis.
- Recorded on August 4, 1993 at Condobolin, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
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- Meredith, John, 1920-2001, interviewer
- Templeman, Bobby, 1928-, interviewee
- O'Brien, Vince, interviewee
- Speer, John, 1929-, interviewee
- Phillips, Gordon, interviewee
- Ridley, George, interviewee
- Willis, Rob, 1944-, interviewer
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- Copyright:
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- 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- Unpublished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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