It was my mother Anne Girard who recorded the Cape Barren Islanders music in the 1970s. All her collection of music/words etc from the islands were given to Heather Sculthorpe from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre in the late 1990s.

The Cape Barren Island people are descendants from Tasmanian aboriginals and whalers who visited the islands. The whalers had both European and American backgrounds - which doesn't help your cause I know.

cheers
Kirsty Harris