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Fanny's Memory of the World
Tasmanian Aboriginal recordings are inscribed in the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register. WARNING: this article contains names, images and voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
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Fanny Cochrane Smith’s Tasmanian Aboriginal Songs
In this recording, Fanny Cochrane Smith talks about being the last of the Tasmanians. She then sings in both English and her own language. It is part of a series of recordings made between 1899 and...
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Fanny Cochrane Smith and Horace Watson, 1903
Fanny Cochrane Smith’s wax recordings are the only recorded example of Tasmanian Aboriginal songs or of any Tasmanian Aboriginal language. The Royal Society in Hobart recorded these songs between...
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