Notebook about Groote Eylandt kept by Elizabeth A. Taylor, 1937-1939 - Page 22

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                                                    Roots

Water  Lily Roots  A-dara-pa_

Billabongs_ round white &  

yellow inside. Cooked & eaten

in quantities _ sweet. Wet season

Yams  leave like  Aspa  big lily

leaf. Grows round trees in

swamp. the native dig up

roots or yams big as melons

Cooked, skinned, sliced  ^thickly  & put in

running  water. for one night. Then eaten,

wet season_food.

Potatoes  [Creaper?] like yam

grows dry places. have to dig

deeply deeply. like Cassans.

Cooked & eaten. like sweet potato

wet season food.

Grass roots  cooked & eaten -

grows near swamp_

Lillies potatos  roots  Cooked. & eaten

very stringy - also Big potatoes - long -

                              after rain - cooked.