Aborigine+Food

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Background Information
The Aborigine thought that all the food in the world was created by ancestral beings. They also thought that the hunting was part of their spiritual life. According to their legends some food are even ancestral spirits that changed into a different form. Also the food the Aborigines gather food called food tucker. Some times aborigines eat wild horses, lizards, snakes, bugs and etc.

Meat
Aborigine mostly ate meat by hunting and rarely ate food with plants. They lived in Australia which was far away from the rest of the world so they didn't have herds of cows, sheep, and pigs. They hunted animals like kangaroos, opossums, duck-billed platypus, and other thing s that live in the dry plains of Australia. They also catch fishes with putting the trap in to the river or sea and catch ducks by going under the water.The men usually did the hunting and their used the long spear as their main weapon.

Aboriginal grinding stones
This is a grinding stone that aborigine used this to smash up the bracken fern roots, bulbs, tubers and berries, as well as insects, small mammals and reptiles before cooking.Grinding stones are usually made from tough rocks such as sandstone or coarse-grained basalt or quartzite. This grinding stones were grew in south east Australia in about 15,000 years ago. Also this grinding stones approved people to live in areas where food was ended. Grinding stones help us learn about the size of history Aboriginal natives in different areas, their foods, and their reactions to great changes in country.

Aboriginal Cooking Techniques

 * Traditional:**

1. Roasting on Hot Coals:

The aborigines most roasted meats like fish and small turtles. They slowly roasted by covering with coals and ashes. For the big hunting, like kangaroo, the fur was the first burned off in the fire. As dead animal began to increase, it would be took out from the fire gutted and the left over of the fur scraped off the sharp apply. In the smaller hunting was more easy to cook by this method. The shellfish was cooked shortly at the side of the fire.

2. Baking in Ashes Dampers and various types of bread were baked in the ashes. it has to use the correct type of wood because of you use the wrong type you will have food that smells bad or you will get an allergy. The type of wattles wood was good to cook on. 3. Steaming in a Ground Oven

The aborigines used ground as a oven, particularly in Wiradjur area, the Darling Murrumbidgee and Lachlan River as there were good places to use the ground as an oven. Ovens get prepared by digging out about 90cm long and 60cm deep. The clay coming from digging was useful. The clay was fashioned in to smooth pieces and they will go on top of the selected fore wood. When the wood burned the clay would become very hot. This is a papular method of cooking vegetables and meat.


 * Recent:**

1. Boiling

Now aborigines learned to boil food with cans, drums, billy cans, aluminium pots and even the iron pots. Whenever such items were available to use.

2. Barbecuing

Aborigines use of a piece of wire or a wire fork to hold pieces like meat or dough over red coals. Many aborigines from various places followed this method of cooking.


 * Note* What do you think about the methods of cooking today and before? Please explain !! **

Two Aboriginal Food
This food is called the honey ant. The womans in Aborigine digged deeply to discover the honey ant in their underground nests. They are particularly abundunt in around Papunya, which means "Honey Ant Dreaming".

The aborigine skinned the kangaroo by this way. First they hanged the kangaroo to the tree then they needed to cut the prorates if its boy kangaroo. Second aborigine cut the fur and skin off the kangaroo then they cut the middle carefully that they didn't cut inside.Third when all the skin got off, they the guts out and that will smell bad a little bit. Forth they cut the ribs, arms and legs off. Finally they stew the meats and also the guts were able to eat too.

Bush Food and Medicine
Even though the Aborigine lived on the vast dry region of Australia they managed to get food from the Bush Plants.


 *  Bunaangu

Bunaangu is a bush medicine that helps toothache and a bad chest. You eat only the sap on the bunaangu or you can boil it up to drink. And that medicine will taste bitter. ||  ||
 * [[image:http://www.roebourne.wa.edu.au/culture/images/garliwirri2.jpg width="150" height="113" caption="Garliwirri"]] || Garliwirri

Garliwirri can use as a bush food or bush medicine. You put garliwirri in the fire then you chew it like chewing gum and inside is like a coconut of you want to eat. Or you use it as a bush medicine is you cook it, smash it and out it on hair that keeps your hair dark. ||
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The buduway is only use the young shoots of the buduway. And you boil it up to drik and its good when you are sick. || <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(51,102,0);"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(51,102,0);">[[image:http://www.roebourne.wa.edu.au/culture/images/gardangu2.jpg width="182" height="147" caption="Gardangu"]] || <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(38,13,13);"> <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Gardangu

Gardangu is a tree that you can just pick straight off the tree and eat it. Also you can crush up and put it in hot water too. ||
 * Malhanggaa

Malhanggaa is a bush medicine that is called lemongrass by white fellas. And it is good when it is dry for headaches and colds. || <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(51,102,0);"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(51,102,0);">[[image:http://www.roebourne.wa.edu.au/culture/images/bajila2.jpg width="150" height="113" caption="Bajila"]] || <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(51,102,0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Bajila

Bjaila produces fruit and when it is raw it is green and shaped like a football. Also when it is ripe it is yellow on the outside and red on the inside.You have to suck on it in your mouth and spit out the seeds. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Bungaa has black berries and you you eat the raw of the black berries. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">    || <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(51,102,0);">  ||
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=Annotated Bibliography= By Jann Enifeld. SAS Library Book. 2003 Life in the Australian Outback - 26 Nov 2008 I found information from pg. 20 to 22. I think this book gives about believes of food and rituals they did for their food supply.

By Du Li Park.World History.book from home.2003 Land & People of All the World History - 25 Nov 2008 This book is useful because this book is Korean so I would write it in my words when I write about it. And it tells many information about everything in the country. I recommend this book if this book is in English or to Korean people.

1996 "Bush Food and Bush Medicine" By Roebourne School and Kieron http://www.roebourne.wa.edu.au/culture/bush.htm - 25 Nov 2008 This website gives informations about bush food and medicine. And I chose this website because it was easy to understand and I think it was cool that the school did this to show people about bush food and medicine and there is more about aborigine. It also gives detailed.

1996 "Kangaroo Skinning" By Roebourne School and Kieron http://roebourne.wa.edu.au/culture/kangaroo.htm - 26 Nov 2008 This website gives information about how to skin the kangaroo. Inside the information it doesn't talk about aborigines did this thing but I think they did so I chose this to get information in this website.

"Aboriginal Cooking Techniques” By Warwick Wright http://www.anbg.gov.au/education/pdfs/aboriginal-cooking-techniques-2006.pdf - 1 Dec 2008 I think this website gives a lot of information on the way the different ways Aborigines really cooked in the old days. "Aboriginal food tucker" By FrogandToad Travel Company http://indigenousaustralia.frogandtoad.com.au/bushtucker.html - 1 Dec 2008 I just found about the honey ant short and it was easy to understand to know about the honey ant shortly.

"Aboriginal Heritage" By Aboriginal Affairs Victoria http://www.ccmaindig.info/heritage/SitesArtifacts_GrindingStones.html - 4 Dec 2008 I got this site from google and I think it has alot of information and I used this for a quick artifact that I can make a scene with model magic.

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