Ken Handley and Beth Handley interviewed by Peter Johnson in the Martu Aboriginal history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3662817
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Handley, Ken, 1934-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2006
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 123 min.)
- Series:
- Martu Aboriginal history project
- Summary:
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Ken and Beth Handley speak about the Jigalong Mission (1959-1962); story of Abraham anecdote; water supply at old and new Jigalong; health of Jigalong staff; staffing and tasks at Jigalong; cattle and sheep duffing by Jigalong's neighbours; food production for mission; feeding the kids and adults; financing the mission; arriving at Jigalong May (1959); problems of managing goats; water and sewerage issues; water and drought; machinery; airstrip; nutrition at the mission; language skills; young women promised to older men; inappropriate government clothing supplies; remembering students at the school and families from the camp; Manyjilyjarra group (1962); initiation ceremony; fighting among the Martu; missionary influence; Aboriginal impression of the mission; tensions within camp; mission anecdotes and Department of Native Welfare attitudes; alcohol; mission as employment agency; mail truck routine; relationship with neighbours; relations between mission staff; adjusting to city life; personally worthwhile.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on January 24, 2006 at Willeton, W.A.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (7 p.) and corrected transcript (typescript, 91 leaves)
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- Also Titled:
- Ken Handley and Elizabeth Handley interviewed by Peter Johnson in the Martu Aboriginal history project
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This belongs to the Martu Aboriginal history project.
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