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Interview with Faith Thomas (sound recording), interviewer: Gordon Briscoe

Title
Interview with Faith Thomas (sound recording), interviewer: Gordon Briscoe
Repository
National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
Reference
TRC 2603/4
Date Range
20 March 1990
Description

Miss Thomas talks of her return to Nepabunna for a week after being taken away from them as a baby; her first impression of tribal aborigines; her experiences staying at Nepabunna mission and visiting her family's camp; her relationship with her family; her family's reaction to her and hers to them; the relations between the missionaries and the aborigines; her memories of camp life.

Formats
Audio
Access
Open

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260