Recorded Sound examples

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Joker Jack saying various Kukatj words mp3

From archive item BREEN_G19-002477A. This is a segment of an interview with Joker Jack at Normanton in 1972.  Linguist Gavan Breen is eliciting Kukatj words from him. The recording was made outdoors and there is some wind noise, but the speakers are still audible. This was the first of many interviews that Gavan Breen and Paul Black did with Joker Jack in the 1970s. There are over 30 hours of recordings of Joker Jack held in the AIATSIS Audiovisual Archive. This recording has been reproduced with permission from Doreen Sambo, the Kukatj Aboriginal Corporation and Gavan Breen.

Chicka Dixon talks about the 1967 Referendum mp3

From archive item DIXON_C01-015500. This is a short segment from a collection of oral history interviews with Chicka Dixon recorded at AIATSIS in 2002. In it he is discussing the 1967 referendum. This recording was made indoors by a trained audio technician using professional equipment. The interviewer is David Jeffery. The main purpose of the recordings was to document Mr Dixon’s extensive photographic collection, also held in the AIATSIS Audiovisual Archive. Selected photographs and transcriptions of Mr Dixon’s oral history recordings were used to great effect in an exhibition entitled Chicka Dixon: the struggle in black and white. This recording has been reproduced with permission from Chicka Dixon.