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Author Gungitj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation, author

Title Field guide to cultural features of the Budj Bim landscape
Published Heywood, Vic. : Gungitj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation, 2013

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 WATERFT ART&ARCH  305.89915 Gun/Fgt  IN PROCESS
Description 69 pages : illustrations, map ; 11 x 16 cm.
Contents Gunditj Mirring Partnership Project -- Budj Bim tours -- About the Budj Bim landscape -- Map of the Budj Bim -- Living in the Buj Bim landscape -- The Gunditjmara People -- Finding Aboriginal cultural heritage in the field -- Stone houses -- Fish traps -- Eel baskets -- Channels -- Grinding stones -- Weirs -- Smoking trees -- Scar trees -- Aboriginal mounds -- Flint implements -- Wooden implements -- Hunting implements -- Axe heads -- Short Finned Eel -- Kangaroos and wallabies -- Possums and koalas -- Tupong -- Black Fish -- Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo -- Brolga -- Wedge-tailed Eagle -- Poonyart grass -- Spiny head mat-rush / basket grass -- Water ribbons -- Lilies and orchids -- Yam daisy -- Austral grasstree -- Native hemp -- Wattles
Summary Part of an extensive toolkit that will healp raise awareness of cultural and natural heritage in the Budj Bim landscape. The pages identify features of interest in the landscape and briefly explain cultural and ecological signficance
Notes Cover title
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- Portland Bay Region -- Social life and customs
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Portland Bay Region (Vic.) -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Victoria -- Portland Bay Region -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- Portland Bay Region -- History
Engineering -- Australia -- History.
Gunditjmara (Australian people)
SUBJECT Eumeralla River Region (Vic.) -- History
Portland Bay Region (Vic.) -- History