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Mulga is an Aboriginal term for shields used to provide defence when fighting with spears and boomerangs. They were commonly made from this extremely hard wood.
The tree was useful as a food source, the seeds can be roasted or ground to make a simple bread called damper mixed with water and cooked in the coals of a fire.
This timber is useful to make digging sticks, tools, weapons such as boomerangs or woomeras.
This pen is made from two diagonal cuts across a very old dry limb to capture the fine birds eye in the sapwood and the wonderful contrasting centre wood.
The bushy tree grows tough in very tough inland country inland in Australia.
When I was a kid some 60 years ago every household had ornaments , ash trays, bowls or vases and these were exported to many countries.
Peter.
The tree was useful as a food source, the seeds can be roasted or ground to make a simple bread called damper mixed with water and cooked in the coals of a fire.
This timber is useful to make digging sticks, tools, weapons such as boomerangs or woomeras.
This pen is made from two diagonal cuts across a very old dry limb to capture the fine birds eye in the sapwood and the wonderful contrasting centre wood.
The bushy tree grows tough in very tough inland country inland in Australia.
When I was a kid some 60 years ago every household had ornaments , ash trays, bowls or vases and these were exported to many countries.
Peter.
