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Eel trap

Eel trap

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Edith Terrick
Gunnai/Kurnai/Bidawal. Born 1936
and
Patrick Bellamy

Eel trap
1994
Plant fibre.
146.8 x 47.2 cm
Koorie Heritage Trust AH1309

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Copyright Edith Terrick and Patrick Bellamy

The Earth Is Kind - Foods, Fishing and Hunting

Good old feed, eel. You'd clean it, cut it into rings and fry it. It's got a very fine bone so you've got to be careful. We used to pick the bones out with our fingers for the babies to have a feed of eel. They loved it.

IRIS LOVETT-GARDINER Gunditjmara

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