Tommy Saville interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2638471
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Saville, Tommy, 1926?-, 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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- 2001 July 15
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 62 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Summary:
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Tommy Saville, born Lawn Hill, Qld. talks about growing up round Camooweal; working at Rocklands Station (c. 1939) ; the stockmen on Rocklands; droving from Rocklands to Tambar with Jack Carol; cattle breeds; new breeds of cattle; bronco work; calve branding; branding systems; his family; Aboriginal Protection Act; Indigenous jockeys; Indigenous work force, work conditions; current conditions of Indigenous people; recreation; changes to cattle industry, the introduction of motorbikes; droving with Pic Willett from Alroy Downs; cold weather while droving, length of trips, food; his jobs; dog watches, drover's time, setting watch to 6pm sundown, length of watches; stampedes; the organisation on Rocklands; cattle droving practices; wages and rations, bonuses at Christmas; drovers camp, singing around bullocks at night; family background and father's skills as a stockman; Indigenous culture; station horses, their allocation of horses, rotation of teams of four; night horses, characteristics; handling clean skin bulls; Blue Percheron horses; traditional branding methods; managers.
Saville discusses bronco work, branding, roping, ear marking, leg ropes; dehorning cattle; cattle numbers; best and worst jobs; castrating calves, bush oysters; lack of refrigeration; Rocklands straddling Queensland/Northern Territory border; loss of fences in floods; attending a muster, combined stock camp, stockmen numbers attending; fencers; sorting cattle after mustering, brands, clean-skins; killing beasts for fresh meat every week on Rocklands, the station butcher; slaughtering; using hides to make greenhide ropes and hobbles; handcrafts; rope varieties; cooking skills, making bush bread, cast-iron camp ovens; bush tucker; floods on Georgina River, high water levels; river systems; the character of Rocklands Station horses; his riding skills; relative skills of European and Indigenous stockmen; Barney Lewis' treatment of young stockmen; the Lewis brothers.
- Cultural sensitivity advisory notice:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this recording may contain names and voices of deceased persons.
- Partial contents:
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- Story of cattle rushes while droving with Jack Carol
- Story of bagman caught up a tree in a flood.
- Notes:
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-221256343
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 75 leaves) available.
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This belongs to the Drovers oral history project.
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- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2001
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