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Nuts.
Burrawong Grows in clusters
in palm tree - staple food.
picked in August - November_
Yellowish about size of walnut
large quantities picked by woman
Cracked. Nut extracted & pounded
between stones lightly making
a light disc - a great many at
a time. Soaked in running water
four or five days. then taken out
& ground up between two stones
into a thick paste or dough, then
made into long damper, about
2 ft. in length then wrapped in
piece of paper bark - & tied up
securely & put into red hot
ashes & cooked - final result
is sort of dark damper_ During
the Burrawong season the people
are in good condition.
Large quantities of these nuts are buried