Alvis Brooks interviewed by Marian Hinchcliffe [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2087716
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Brooks, Alvis, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 198-
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 60 min.) : analog, mono.
- Summary:
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Brooks discusses an incident on 24 Jan. 1945 was summoned by Inspector Burke to Port Augusta where she as a South Australian policewoman was assigned to escort Daisy Bates located 300 miles away in an isolated region in South Australia. It was feared that she was sick and in need of hospitalisation. Brooks conducted her from her campsite to Tarkooba and then by train to Port Augusta giving a detailed account of her somewhat eccentric behaviour towards her and others. She then encountered her once more circa 1947 when she was called to remove a difficult woman from the Governor's home.
- Biography/History:
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Anthropologist and social worker who lived with the Aborigines in South Australia and Western Australia for more than thirty years and wrote about their language and custom.
Alvis Brooks was born circa 1920 and was a South Australian policewoman over this period.
- Notes:
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- This recording is not introduced or the two female amateur interviewers identified on tape. Documentation suggests that one of them is Marian Hinchcliffe.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Subject:
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- Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951 -- Biography
- Brooks, Alvis -- Interviews
- Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia
- Anthropologists -- Australia -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia
- Policewomen -- South Australia -- Interviews
- Ethnologists -- Australia -- Biography
- Social workers -- Australia -- Biography
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- Copyright:
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