Mungo Manic
@MungoManic
Exploring the history of ancient Australians. Profile image is Bullip Bullip "King Billy" of the Wadawurrung
Made a video about Australian warfare based on Ludwig Leichardt's 1843 diary! He wrote so much on other topics, I may have to make this a series youtube.com/watch?v=6M0Ktq…
"The natives cut through the blubber and eat the animal’s flesh. After the intestines have been removed, any persons suffering from rheumatism or similar pains, go and sit within the whale’s body and anoint themselves with the fat, believing that they get relief by doing so." -…
The ick hit different in 1841 “There is no sight more revolting than to see a young and gracefully formed native girl stepping out of the carcass of a putrid whale”
The ick hit different in 1841 “There is no sight more revolting than to see a young and gracefully formed native girl stepping out of the carcass of a putrid whale”
Australian foragers ate rotten maggot-infested meat too. Apparently it was common in many human cultures
If you’re interested in pre-colonial America follow this guy. Karl Bodmer reminds me of Australia’s George Angas. A keen observer and artist
Funeral Scaffold of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre, plate 11 from Volume 2 of 'Travels in the Interior of North America' wikiart.org/en/karl-bodmer…
Australian Aboriginals using an Atlatl to hunt a turtle from bark canoes...
