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Record Id:26697275 (Australian Library Collections) permalink
Author:Boyd, Stan.
Title:Folkloric recording, Stan Boyd recites a poem and recalls his days as a drover and stockman [sound recording] / recorded by Wendy Lowenstein.
Published:1971.
Description:1 sound cassette (ca. 45 min.)
Playing Time:004500
Series:Wendy Lowenstein Australian folklore and social history collection
Summary:Stan Boyd speaks about scratch pulling; chopping wood on the chest; carrying heavy weights for a dare; Paddy Fox, a squatter on Crown Land at Pine Tree; cleanskins; stock always travelling east; roping pole; Cooktown races; mothers's skills; red 'turkey' twill; Native troopers; 'lava lava'; stockman's wages, compares the difference between black and white; women not paid at all; Brown at Weipa; York Downs; Paddy Fox and the Crooked Bangtail Muster (duplicated?); George Kermode.
Contents:SIDE 1: Games: Mumble-the-peg -- Knuckle bones -- Spinning tops -- Card games -- Entertainment at the pub, tipstake (with torpedo shaped bottle). Poem: The boy stood on the burning deck.
Biography:Stan Boyd (dec.), ex-drover, timber cutter, bush poet and folk musician from Cooktown, Nth. Qld. during the first half of the 20th century.
Notes:Continuation of the Stan Boyd recordings for the Wendy Lowenstein collection held at ORAL TRC 2915/9-11, ORAL TRC 2915/12.
Recorded on Aug. 01, 1971 at Cooktown, Nth. Qld.
User access copy made.
Subjects:Boyd, Stan -- Interviews.
Droving -- Queensland -- Anecdotes.
Games -- Australia.
Other Authors:Lowenstein, Wendy, 1927-
Access Conditions:Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
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Libraries that have this item:National Library of Australia. National Library of Australia (ANL) (3313788) ORAL TRC 2915/13

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