Noongar bush tucker : bush food plants and fungi of the south-west of Western Australia / Vivienne Hansen and John Horsfall.
Material type: TextPublisher: Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 442 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781760800420
- 1760800422
- Bush food plants and fungi of the south-west of Western Australia
- Noongar / Nyungar / Nyungah people (W41) (WA SI50)
- Food - Bush tucker
- Plants
- Plants - Fungi
- Plants, Edible
- Indigenous Collection
- Aboriginal Australians, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander
- Aboriginal Australians -- Food
- Wild plants, Edible -- Western Australia
- Wild plants, Edible -- Western Australia -- South-West
- Wild foods -- Western Australia -- South-West
- Edible fungi -- Western Australia -- South-West
- Plants, Edible -- Australia -- Western Australia
- Wild plants, Edible -- Western Australia, Southwest
- Wild foods -- Western Australia, Southwest
- Edible fungi -- Western Australia, Southwest
- Aboriginal Australians -- Food -- Australia -- Western Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Food -- Western Australia
- Wild plants, Edible -- Identification
- Aboriginal Australians -- Nutrition -- Western Australia
- Noongar (Australian people)
- Western Australia
- Australian
- Australian
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | State Botanical Collection | RBG | 581.63209941 NOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | RBG00022449 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-419) and index.
Before the colonisation of Australia, Aboriginal Australians lived on a wonderful larder of fresh fruit, vegetables and lean meat, in a land largely free from disease, with more exercise, less stress and supportive communities. Today, in Aboriginal communities all over Australia, there are higher instances of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, renal disease, some types of cancer and lung diseases than in the general population. This book is an attempt to preserve bush tucker knowledge for future generations of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people to ensure the information is not lost with the passing of Elders. The authors describe over 260 species of the edible plants and fungi that were regularly gathered by the Noongars of the Bibbulmun Nation of the south-west of Western Australia before and after colonisation. Many of these plants and fungi are difficult to find today because of land clearing for crops and the farming of sheep and cattle.