i need three parts and i already have all the infomation
Part one:
Similarities
– There is summer, autumn, winter, spring
– Indicators for summer include
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Hot, heat, warmth
– Indicators for autumn include
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North/west wind
– Indicators for winter include
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When the earth has rain
{washing the earth}
– Indicators for spring include
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Mild warm temperature
Differences
– The Kaurna calendar goes something along the lines of
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Summer goes from January-March
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Autumn goes from April-June
o
Winter goes from July-September
o
Spring goes from
October-December
– The modern calendar goes along the lines of
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Summer goes from
December-February
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Autumn goes from march-may
o
Winter goes from June-august
o
Spring goes from
September-November
– In the Kaurna calendar, the seasons are determined by seasonal
lifestyle, and plant and animal indicators but the modern calendar is based of
months
Part two:
A.
TIWI ISLANDS –NORTHERN
TERRITORY–AUSTRALIA
From mid-august- November is, Tyiari {The season of hot weather and
high humidity}
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Water beds and creeks dry up
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Thunderstorms build but there
is little rain
o
Food picking happens in the
mangroves and jungle patches to stop hot feet
o
Worms are easy to find and
sweet
From December- February is Jamutakari {The wet season}
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Possums are spotted all over
the place
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It’s the ‘season of the
clapsticks’
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Rain falls almost every day
filling up the creeks and river beds
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There is a lot of lightning
From
march-mid august is Kumunupunari {The dry season for fire and smoke}
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Many trees flower and bear
fruit
o
Dry grass is burnt
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The wind can cause flaky skin
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Near the end it can get very
cold
B.
Similarities:
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In the Kaurna calendar and the Tiwi
islands calendar share the similarity of a hot season/dry season
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They both have a cold season/month
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They both use animal sounds,
and other animal indicators to tell it’s a season change
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They both understand that
plants will change depending on the season
Differences:
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The Tiwi island calendar has 3
seasons and the Kaurna calendar has 4
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In the Tiwi calendar the
Kumunupunari goes for around 6 months with the last few weeks or so is cold
whereas the Kaurna calendar gave that its own month.
o
In Tiwi wet season occurs at
the same time as Kaurna’s summer
Part 3:
– Modern
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The modern crop calendar, grows
a variety of plants and crops from cotton-wheat
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They plant around the year
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They have specific harvesting
times that they must stick to
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Its never wild
– Aboriginal
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They don’t really plant
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They have specific harvesting times
to stick to
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It’s mainly wild
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Gurti otherwise known as a
quandong is an example fruit that the Kaurna people grew or harvested
