Ryan, Sheila. Interview about mumering

• Main Author: Niktab Ettati, Saeedeh
• Other Authors: Ryan, Sheila
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Social beliefs; practices and customs; Mummers; Ryan; Sheila; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/5815

Sheila Ryan talks about mummering and her mummers. "Interview with Sheila Ryan, Witless Bay, Saeedeh Niktab Ettati 0:00 - Introduction and moving in Witless Bay in July 2009; 0:54 - Mummers coming to her house and how comical it was for her to guess them; 1:46 - Her husband going mummering in Christmas; 2:12 - Where people mostly used to go mummering, around the bay and not in the town; 2:40 - Her decision to put full grown mummers in her garden in Christmas four years ago, after moving to Witless Bay; 3:05 - The reaction of her neighbours when she put her mummers in the garden for the first time; 3:25 - Making mummers with the aide of her husband; 3:54 - Her source of ideas for making mummers and what they are made out of; 4:31 - Ideas to make wooden mummers to sell; 4:38 - The shops where she buy her materials for making mummers; 5:01 - Her motivation to choose mummers to make and multiple use of mummers for Halloween; 5:20 - Variety and creativity in making new and different mummers: elf mummers, Santa and Mrs. Claus; 5:58 - Mrs. Claus and how she figured out to make her face last year; 6:54 - The lady in Bay Bulls with mummers; 7:01 - Her story of going to mummers’ parade with her friend Jacquelyn last year; 8:27 - Her plan to make a hobby horse; 8:39 - Her experience of teaching others to make mummers; 8:58 - Visitors from different places visiting her garden decorated with mummers around Christmas; 9:11 - Last year all in Witless Bay gathered in her garden in Christmas; 9:47 - Her permanent passion for decorating her house and Christmas tree house but not with mummers even when she was living in downtown; 10:33 - How she learnt to sew and all her family background in sewing; 11:25 - Her husband’s costume for mummering; 12:35 - Her interaction with people coming to visit her mummers; 13:11 - The reason why she was not in mummering until she moved to Witless Bay and started making them; 13:53 - Her neighbours’ response to her mummers; 14:23 - Children and why they are not interested in mummering; 14:33 - ...