Koorie plants, Koorie people : traditional Aboriginal food, fibre and healing plants of Victoria / Nelly Zola and Beth Gott.
Material type:
TextMelbourne : Koorie Heritage Trust, 1992Description: xi, 71 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1875606106 :
- Aboriginal Australians -- Food -- Victoria
- Aboriginal Australians -- Medicine -- Victoria
- Plants, Useful -- Victoria
- Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- Ethnobotany
- Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- Medicine
- Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- Food
- Medicinal plants -- Victoria
- Wild foods -- Victoria
- Wild plants, Edible -- Victoria
- Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnobotany -- Victoria
- Aboriginal Australians -- Medicine -- Victoria
- Aboriginal Australians -- Food -- Victoria
- 581.63/0994
Contents:
Summary: Extensively illustrated book identifying Victorian plants used by Aborigines for food, medicines, implements, shelters, canoes and other uses arranged by type of environment; botanical and relevant language names given for plants.
Introduction -- Preface -- Gathering food plants -- Living water -- Cooking -- The coast -- The dry country -- Mountain forests -- Plains and open forests -- Medicines -- Fibre -- Gardens for viewing Aboriginal plants.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Cranbourne Library | RBG | CRAN 581.6309945 KOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | LRBM00246868 | ||
| Book | State Botanical Collection | RBG | 581.6309945 KOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | LRBM00064494 |
Includes illustrations by Aboriginal artists: Flourishing / Belle Martin; East Gippsland bush / Rachel Mullett; The hunt / Gayle Maddigan.
Includes index.
Bibliography: pages 66-67.
Introduction -- Preface -- Gathering food plants -- Living water -- Cooking -- The coast -- The dry country -- Mountain forests -- Plains and open forests -- Medicines -- Fibre -- Gardens for viewing Aboriginal plants.
Extensively illustrated book identifying Victorian plants used by Aborigines for food, medicines, implements, shelters, canoes and other uses arranged by type of environment; botanical and relevant language names given for plants.
