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ABORIGINAL KILNS in the Murray Darling by William Blandowski

Women carrying, preparing and cooking 'Bulrush', Cumbungi, GUMBUNG (Wemba Wemba) BOURT-DEET (Wurundjeri) roots in the plains area of the Lower Murray River. From William Blandowski's expedition to the lower Murray between 1856 and 1857 (Central Murray Vic/NSW).

The women collected the roots in shallow swamps between January and March as a staple vegetable food throughout the high summer period. The small secondary roots are taken off, then the bigger roots are tied into bundles and put onto heated in earth and clay kilns and roasted for 2-3 hours.

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Johann Wilhelm Theodor Ludwig von Blandowski (1822-1878), was a Polish born German explorer and zoologist. He is most known for his exploration of the Murray and Darling Region aided by a German naturalist, Gerard Krefft, illustrating animals, plants and birds. He demonstrated an interest in the activities of First Nations people with his numerous illustrations.

He had a fall-out with the scientific community in Melbourne after holding a position of colonial prestige, and the reasons given by the colonial scientists were pathetic, so there must have also been an issue with his interest in First Nations peoples, as the other intellectuals had incurious attitudes towards them, at best.

Blandowski left Melbourne and returned to Germany after a very public fall-out with his contemporaries and took many of his illustrations with him. His sister made them available to the public upon his death but many were not seen by most people in Australia for over 100 years. A comprehensive collection of many of his illustrations are now included in a book edited by Harry Allen and published by AIATSIS in 2010, including this image.

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kiln

/kɪln/

noun

1. a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying, especially one for calcining lime or firing pottery.

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cinnamon

[名]1 《植物》セイロンニッケイ（肉桂）, シナモン：クスノキ科の常緑樹.2 [U]シナモン, （肉）桂皮：1の樹皮；薬用・調理用.3 《植物》ニッケイ（肉桂）：1の近縁種.4 [U]肉桂色（...

opinionated

[形]自分の意見に固執する；独断的な, 頑固な（self-opinionated）.



opinionator

IN BRIEF: An expresser, holder, or creator of a personal view or judgment.

n.
An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. [Obs.] South.




townie,

also town·y (tou'nē)
n. Informal, pl., -ies.
A permanent resident of a town, especially a resident of a college town who is academically unaffiliated with the local college or university.
[名]((略式))（いなかのことに無知な）都会の人間；（大学町で, 大学関係者でない）住民.