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MMT1-20210726BH
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Title Bill Yidumduma Harney sings
Description Recording made at Menngen Community (Innesvale), NT by Myfany Turpin.

Bill is of Jangari/Japangardi skin speaks Wardaman.

Discussion about Wanji-wanji song and Bill sings and explains some other songs and trading songs.

File listing
20210726BH-1.jpeg 'BH: For me I bin born at Wiluru.(?)'
20210726BH-2.jpeg
20210726BH-3.jpeg
20210726BH-4.jpeg
20210726BH-1.wav
Wanji-wanji travelling song ('junba' genre)
6'16.1214 m-laka53
8'04.6883 m-laka33

20210726BH-2.wav
A different junba (entertainment ceremony)
Sings 9 songs

20210726BH-3.wav
Discussion of bamboo (didjeridu), boomerang, ochre and tool trading.
Sings didgeridu song.
20210726BH-4.wav
Bill talks about Tomato and Sambo when I mention Jack Gordon (Gordon Downs). He knew Jack Gordon too.
Bill talks about verses of Warriwarnkanya. He describes some of the dancing. Shaking their chests. Right through to Inverway.
Bill was at Flora Valley.
Bill talks about stockmen he worked with

Discussion of how Bill learnt songs
20210726BH-5.wav
20210726BH-6.wav
Origination date 2021-07-26
Origination date free form 20 July 2024
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MMT1/20210726BH
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Collector
myfany turpin
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Countries
Australia - AU
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Language as given English
Subject language(s)
Multiple languages - mul
Undetermined language - und
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Content language(s)
Multiple languages - mul
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Region / village
Originating university University of Sydney
Operator myfany turpin
Data Categories historical text
primary text
song
Data Types Event
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Sound
Text
Discourse type interactive_discourse
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DOI 10.26278/ek1x-vv89
Cite as myfany turpin (collector), 2021. Bill Yidumduma Harney sings. JPEG/MPEG/TIFF/VND.WAV/PDF. MMT1-20210726BH at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/ek1x-vv89
Content Files (21)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
MMT1-20210726BH-fieldnotes.pdf application/pdf 22.1 MB
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Collection Information
Collection ID MMT1
Collection title Interviews about the Wanji-wanji ceremony, a travelling corroboree of inland Australia
Description Interviews and playings of legacy recordings of Wanji-wanji an Aboriginal travelling song popular in the western half of Australia in the early 20th Century.
Countries
Australia - AU
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Languages
Arrernte, Eastern - aer
Anmatyerre - amx
English - eng
Gurinji - gue
Kukatja - kux
Mangala - mem
Martu Wangka - mpj
Nyangumarta - nna
Ngaanyatjarra - ntj
Nyunga - nys
Pintupi-Luritja - piu
Pitjantjatjara - pjt
Panytyima - pnw
Warlpiri - wbp
Walmajarri - wmt
Multiple languages - mul
Undetermined language - und
Nyiyaparli - xny
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Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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