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Collection Number: 20124

Collection Title: Page Day Holmes Field Recording, 1972

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Size 2 items
Abstract The 1972 field recording on open-reel audiotape contains an interview with horse trader identified as "Mr. Brown" from the Piedmont area of North Carolina. Page Day Holmes, then a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, conducted the interview. Mr. Brown discusses his background and shares memories and narratives about horse trading. Field notes accompanying the recording list the stories such as "Two well behaved saddle horses sire a mean colt, which is finally broken" and "Women catching horses that men can't lay a hand on." Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Creator Holmes, Page Day.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Language English
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Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Page Day Holmes Field Recording #20124, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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This summary description was created in November 2018 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Smith

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Page Day Holmes was a graduate student in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1970s.

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