and
Irmangka-Irmangka
Bush Tucker and Bush
Medicine
around Coober Pedy
A location map for Coober Pedy, Southern
Central Australia
Most
people would find the deserts surrounding Coober Pedy in Central South
Australia to be particularly barren and inhospitable. Few would be
able to survive the searing heat of the relentless summers when the
surface temperature of the rocky desert floor often gets close to 60
degrees Celsius. Where food and water are very hard to come
by.
But this country has been home to the
Antakarinja people since the Dreamtime. They have been able, not only to live, but to
thrive, in this country, where few other people could. Here is presented
some of the plants and animals that these resourceful people have been able to use as food
and medicine over the time that they have lived in this beautiful, but harsh
and unforgiving,
environment. |
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