Mataura (N.Z.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Street Maps for Invercagill, Bluff, Gore, Mataura and Riverton [5th Edition] , 1970
Item — Map-box 9: Series S0080
Identifier: S00800005
Dates:
1970
WILSON, Winifred May interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group — Box 45
Identifier: H0500
Overview
In this interview, May talks about how she first got involved with Highland Dancing at the age of 10 through dancing with the Mataura Kilties Pipe Band. She was taught by Stella Glennie. May moved to Dunedin to be taught by William Kilgour. She took part in a dance tour of Central Otago. In the early 1920s, when men dominated the Highland dancing world, May won the first combined men’s and women’s over-18 championship. In 1924 she travelled to Scotland where she won both the Highland fling and...
Dates:
1994