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The average Australian, adult and child, knew more about botany one thousand years ago than they know today. Knowledge of botany supplied them not only with much of their food but also with drugs and cosmetics and—in a drought—with water.
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L. J. Webb, ‘The Use of Plant Medicines and Poisons by Australian Aborigines’, Mankind, 1969, vol. 7, pp. 137–46.
T. T. Webb, ‘Aboriginal Medical Practice in East Arnhem Land’, Oceania, 1933, vol. 4, p. 95.
Pituri: T. H. Johnston and J. B. Cleland, ‘The History of the Aboriginal Narcotic, Pituri’, Oceania, 1933–4, vol. 4, pp. 201–23, 269–89; exhibit in S.A. Museum, Adelaide.
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W. H. Hovell and H. Hume, Journey of Discovery to Port Phillip (Adelaide, 1965), p. 39 n.
Quest for water: A. T. Magarey, ‘Aborigines’ Water Quest in Arid Australia’, A.A.A.S., 1895, vol. 6, pp. 647–58; J. B. Cleland, in B. C. Cotton, pp. 114, 142;
L. C. E. Gee, Bush Track and Gold Fields (Adelaide, 1926), esp. 61–3.
Wilgie Mia ochre: K. R. Miles in A. B. Edwards ed., Geology of Australian Ore Deposits (Melbourne, 1953), pp. 242–4.
Ausitralites: C. P. Mountford, Brown Men and Red Sand, pp. 35–6; E. J. Dunn, Australites, Bulletin 27 of Geological Survey of Victoria (Melbourne, 1912), p. 14.
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Blainey, G. (1975). Medicines and Drugs, Liquids and Cosmetics. In: Triumph of the Nomads. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02423-0_10
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