Funding/assisstance should certianly be given to Eddie and any other individuals with a gift for accessing this material from it’s living sources – from miscellaneous bits of information I’ve picked up over the years I’m certian that there’s an awful lot thats still out there and worth recording.
The nature of our oral lore has certianly diminished and changed since the original decades when the collections were made, but those collectors too might have been dissuaded if they allowed the prevailing notion that ‘it was all gone,’ even then in the 1930s, to suffocate their efforts and enthusiasm.