Aboriginal Food Storage

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Aboriginal food storage.

Some material may contain terms that reflect authors views or those of the period in which the item was written or recorded but may not be considered appropriate today. Master list of references retrieved appendix b2. Aboriginal and torres strait islander people should be aware that this website may contain images voices or names of deceased persons in photographs film audio recordings or printed material. Animal native foods include kangaroo emu witchetty grubs and crocodile and plant foods.

Having these storage techniques also meant we could feed hundreds of hungry mouths at ceremonies and gatherings. They like collecting acacias lemon aspen seeds herbs fruits and nuts roots of eucalyptus fig trees grass trees apples quandong and lilly pilly. List of website references appendix c. Bunya nuts were stored by burying.

Aboriginal women utilise a range of bags baskets and containers to carry food and other items. In aboriginal man and environment. It is believed these cycad storage trenches were the. Oceania 28 113 142.

In the darling basin and central australia food storage was practiced either in skin bags or wrapped in grass that was coated with mud. Bush tucker also called bushfood is any food native to australia and used as sustenance by indigenous australians the aboriginal and torres strait islander peoples but it can also describe any native fauna or flora used for culinary or medicinal purposes regardless of the continent or culture. Australian aboriginal food plants. A review march 2009 4 list of appendices appendix a.

See more ideas about aboriginal food food aboriginal. Some ecological and cultural historical implications. Soft string bags or dilly bags made from woven bush string. The food that the aboriginal people gather is from the australian bush.

Baskets made using a coiled technique. There were many different ways aboriginal people stored the grains nuts fruit and veggies fish and meat we farmed including in chambers made from clay and straw storage units built from wood in bags and in hollow trees. Food safety network safe preparation and storage of aboriginal traditional country foods. One seed store in central australia was found that held 1000 kg in 17 large wooden dishes about 30 cm deep and 1 5 m long.

Cycad seeds were sliced wrapped in paperbark and placed in grass lined 6 m long trenches that were filled with soil. Databases search engines and keywords appendix b1. Stiff baskets made from bulrushes strips of palm fronds and strips of cane. Journal of plant physiology 134 196 202.

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