Aboriginal Hunting and Cooking

Aboriginal Hunting My name is Wendy, I come from Mornington Island. Mornington is in the Gulf of Carpentaria it is the biggest Island in the Gulf. Well hunting is very well known there. Most people go hunting on the sea and some people go hunting in the bush. People on the sea go hunting for turtles, fish, crabs, dugong and go into the mangroves for mudshells, oysters and can even find more crabs. In the bush you can find bush fruit and more food like goanna, pigs, wallabies and more. But the most hunted food is most of the sea food like the dugongs and turtles but in the season for bush food most kids like me for one like eating the bush food because I have grown up with a lot of bush food when I was young and still today I still like bush food and so do the rest of my families.

How the food is cooked

You can cook the dugong, turtles and the fish on the fire or even cook it in the frying pan. You can roast the fish, dugong and turtle. When you find mudshells or the crabs you can cook it on the fire or on the coals. Some food from the bush you cook on the fire too like the goanna, wallaby and the pig but most people like their wallaby and the pig fried. The goanna is capmarry (cooked in a pit) or can be put in the oven for a while say 2 and a half hours or even less then that. Some other bush food can be cooked the same way we can cook other food.

Wendy Wilson, Herberton, Queensland, Australia

References

Picture original drawing by Edwin Butcher and Wendy Wilson, Herberton, Queensland, Australia