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Author:Guttie, Jack, b. 1932?
Title:Interview with Jack Guttie, Aboriginal stockman [sound recording] / interviewed by John Meredith.
Published:1993.
Description:1 digital audio tape (ca. 90 min.)
Playing Time:013000
Summary:Guttie speaks of his birth on Innamincka Station, his parents in particular their tribal names, how his mother worked at the station homestead, how his father was a head stockman for Kidman, his paternal grandfather was German, how he is the only one who now remembers the tribal language, how he played games with crows as a kid such as pinching their eggs, how his father went droving for Joe Conlan in 1938.
Notes:Preservation and user cassette copies made.
Recorded on Oct. 22, 1993 at Cunnamulla, Qld.
Subjects:Guttie, Jack, b. 1932? -- Interviews.
Guttie, Jack, b. 1932? -- Childhood and youth.
Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Social life and customs.
Stockmen -- Queensland -- Interviews.
Droving -- Queensland.
Country life -- Queensland.
Stockmen local
Other Authors:Meredith, John, 1920-2001
Access Conditions:Open access.
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Libraries that have this item:National Library of Australia. National Library of Australia (ANL) (1374644) ORAL TRC 2590/73

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