Taungurung News

The Possum Skin Coat that has been a major project for Taungurung community is completed and is on display at the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University.

The project was funded by Monash University and quite a number of the Taungurung community participated in this cultural artifact.

The coat was decorated using a traditional approach of burning iconography onto the pelts that were then sown together. The patterns burnt onto the pelts represent the various research schools of the University and it is intended that the coat will be used in ceremonial activities at the University.

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At the old Mansfield railway station the Delatite Indigenous Reference Group were able to put a mud brick wall featuring a snake tiled shape.

A scarred tree from which a canoe had been cut out has been stood up under the cover of a protective roof. Local residents, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, participated in developing the lovely paved area which is flood lit at night.

click on the sign to enlarge.

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