Northern Territory: central Australia west of Alice Springs - Papunya - desert types - dry times - no wet season for some years - need tribal knowledge to find water - fierce competition for food - Honey ants well adapted - also part of local women's culture, Kaparis fruit - blue tongue lizard, goanas - water signs - tribal engraving for waterhole - Yuendumu and local stories - Harts Range and small water catchment with bush bananas for midday meal with locals - melting spinifex resin to repair jerrycan - firestarting lesson using condey's crystal and sugar to ignite cotton wool - shows use of a signal mirror - using eucalypt tree wraps leafy branches in the sun and waits for condensation inside the plastic - catch life-saving water without expending much energy. Last scenes on fringes of Tanami Desert - Lajamanu - local men do the hunting but women do the food gathering... so Les does most of his research using knowledge learnt from the women - wichety grubs cookup.
Title | Bush Tucker Man - Season 1 Episode 3 Desert |
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Year | 1996 |
Genre | Documentary |
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Studio | ABC TV |
Cast | Les Hiddins |
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First Air Date | Jul 31, 1988 |
Last Air date | Jan 28, 1996 |
Season | 3 Season |
Episode | 23 Episode |
Runtime | 60:14 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb: | 9.00/ 10 by 4.00 users |
Popularity | 0.749 |
Language | English |