Harold Hunt interviewed by Rob Willis in Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3113727
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Hunt, Harold John, 1925-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2004 Jun. 2
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 120 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording.
Harold Hunt born 1925 at Bourke, N.S.W. discusses his book 'Gorn Shearin'; his family background; his parents; his Aboriginal heritage; the depression years in the outback; the family travelling around western N.S.W. looking for work; his parents getting a lease for 'Coallie Bore' and settling there; his parents separation; his mother taking the children to Wanaaring, N.S.W.; his childhood and school days; beginning to find out about racism; family life at Wanaaring; bush remedies; children's games; his mother's laundering techniques and equipment; his mother playing musical games on the accordion; a family band playing for dances in the area; the entertainment of the time; musical performers, being mostly country and western; his views on trust and respect in those days; his family getting their first wireless; the fights in the boxing tent shows.
Hunt speaks about the 'University of Life'; his ideas on the value of education; the Aboriginal view on education; racism in Australia; his views on Aboriginality; his views on multiculturalism; living with Aboriginals in Central Australia; his work as a drug counselor in Central Australia; the shearing industry; his shearing days; the shearer's cooks and their nicknames; alcohol in the shearing workplace; shearing in the Bigga area; shearing superfine sheep and the 'Golden Bale'; 'Big Jack McLeod', a noted shearer; changes in the shearing industry; the introduction of the wide comb by New Zealand shearers; how he stopped drinking and dealt with the problem; helping other with drinking problems; his philosophy on life; his current position as a university lecturer.
- Partial contents:
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- Stories and yarns about: his sister Doreen breaking her leg
- using petrol cans to build a house
- 'breaking the four minute mile'
- his mother being sued by the Post Master
- droving
- a cocky's daughter in a shearing shed
- Jimmy Gibbs
- a shearer's cook and a drunk shearer
- ghosts
- a snake
- a stockwhip.
- Biography/History:
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Harold Hunt - lecturer and author.
- Notes:
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- Recorded by John Harpley.
- Recorded on June 02, 2004 at Bigga, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia ;
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- Timed summary (4 p.)
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2004
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