Elise Wiesner discusses her life and sings folk songs of the Walla Walla district, New South Wales, for the John Meredith folklore collection

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Wiesner, Elise, b. 1898
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Wiesner, Elise, b. 1898; Singing.; Walla Walla (N.S.W.) - History.
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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.
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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].
John Meredith folklore collection
1 sound tape reel (ca. 25 min....
1988 English Sound; Recorded music 1

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