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Record Id:20256019 (Australian Library Collections) permalink
Author:Wiesner, Elise, b. 1898.
Title:Elise Wiesner discusses her life and sings folk songs of the Walla Walla district, New South Wales, for the John Meredith folklore collection [sound recording].
Published:1988.
Description:1 sound tape reel (ca. 25 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, ; 5 in.
Playing Time:002500
Series:John Meredith folklore collection
Summary:Folkloric recording: Elise Wiesner discusses leaving South Australia in 1906, rail from Murray Bridge to Melbourne then Albury and Gerogery, Beaver Rock Farm at Walbundry, 3 miles walk to school, mother died at birth, lost in fog, school rules, learning songs, singing at home, speaking English and German, the homestead, thatched roof in S. Aust., no tank water, novelty of hearing rain on the iron roof in N.S.W., meals and traditions of eating, traditional German pig killing, wedding tradition, tin kettling, Indian hawkers of the district, stripping the crop, winnowing by hand machines, bagging and sewing wheat as a family effort, railing the crop away, wheat, oats and peas, shearing by hand, treading down the bales, mother's needlecraft, clothes washing, ironing with flat irons, charcoal iron, a stove, housebuilding materials, mixing adobe clay with a horse, dances, the Seidels introducing dancing after federslischen parties, "introducing the devil to Walbundry", dance performed.
Contents:Singing: Liebe Mann and Grosse Frau. -- Recitation: Hoppa, hoppa reide (nursery rhyme). -- Going to school. -- Zu-sa, zu-sa ("Pussy cat, pussy cat). -- Conversation: Explains the saying "silly donkey". -- Recitation: Hoppa, hoppa reide (repeat). -- School song (learnt in 1907)
Notes:Conversation and music.
Recorded by John Meredith with Rob Willis.
Recorded at Walla Walla, N.S.W. on July 5, 1988.
Part of:John Meredith folklore collection (AuCNL)2687559
Subjects:Wiesner, Elise, b. 1898 -- Interviews.
Singing.
Folk singers -- New South Wales -- Walla Walla -- Interviews.
German Australians -- New South Wales -- Walla Walla -- Social life and customs.
Folk songs -- New South Wales -- Walla Walla.
Folk songs, German -- New South Wales -- Walla Walla.
Walla Walla (N.S.W.) -- History.
Other Authors:Meredith, John, 1920-2001.
Willis, Rob, 1944-
Access Conditions:Access open for research.
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Libraries that have this item:National Library of Australia. National Library of Australia (ANL) (2939486) ORAL TRC 2222/R331-334

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