Mawgu - edible grub |
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Title : | Mawgu - edible grub |
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Date of creation : | ca. 1915 | ||
Additional Creator : | Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951 | ||
Format : | Photograph | ||
Dimensions : | 132 x 87 mm | ||
Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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Description : |
Photograph, in postcard format, of an edible grub. The description, in pencil on the reverse side, thought to have been written by Daisy Bates, reads:
Before European settlement the traditional diet of Aboriginal Australians was based on the naturally occurring foods that could be hunted and gathered from the land, rivers and oceans. Fruit, vegetables, grains, meat and fish were part of many communities' diets and they had a thorough knowledge of the edible flora and fauna available in their territory and seasonal changes. From the 1980s an appreciation grew of the uniqueness and the nutritional qualities of foods that Aboriginal Australians had eaten for generations before white settlement. Some suggested that these 'bush foods' were the only truly Australian foods and our national cuisine should be based upon these ingredients. Vic Cherikoff, advocate of bush food and proprietor of the company Bush Tucker Supply, wrote in 1992:
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Period : | 1914-1918 |
Region : | Flinders Ranges and Far North - Outback,Northern Territory |
Further reading : | Cherikoff, Vic. Uniquely Australian : the beginnings of an Australian bushfood cuisine, Boronia Park, N.S.W. : Bush Tucker Supply, c1992 Isaacs, Jennifer. Bush food : Aboriginal food and herbal medicine, McMahons Point, N.S.W. : Weldons, c1987 |
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