2 min 52 sec

Taken from the documentary My Survival as an Aboriginal (1978)

Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be G

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Curator’s clip description

Essie Coffey instructs some young people on how to track animals. They are looking for porcupine tracks, and finally find one. A porcupine never walks straight says Essie, but always walks in a zig zag. They follow the porcupine to a hollowed log.

Curator’s notes

While it was carefully constructed, this sequence is very much the equivalent of an Indigenous home video, with the family out on a hunting and gathering expedition, and in this instance, looking for the prized flesh of the porcupine or echidna.

Romaine Moreton, curator

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