In our experience , a trip to Special Collections at James Cook University, Townsville , always results in a feast of interesting items coming to attention . One example- the above record of songs, some in English , recorded in the l960s at the Yarrabah aboriginal settlement , near Cairns . Singers are named as Hillary and W. Harris and Dick Taylor.
The emblem on the sleeve cover is derived from a boomerang totem on a softwood shield collected in the early l930s by the late Mrs Ursula McConnel at Yarrabah . Field collectors for the songs were Alice M. Moyle and P. C. Griffin, master dubbing performed by Audio Visual Aids, Monash University, Melbourne .
Song titles included Spear Making, Cyclone, Alligator, Carpet Snake, Scrub Hen , Feathers , Bark Canoe, Octopus , Two Brothers, Two Sisters. "Prowler from the North " is another , which raises the possibility that it referred to WWll .
