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Australian writers, historians and amateurs for whom the digital aggregator is an invaluable resource have taken to social media to defend their treasure from budget cuts. Their simple message: #fundTrove
Walking along some of the beaches of north-east Arnhem Land you’ll notice, if you stop to look at your footprints, little terracotta shards.
They are remnants of the pots in which the Macassans (from the south-west corner of Sulawesi) cooked and stored the trepang they had been harvesting since the 16th century along the northern Australian coast as part of a sophisticated trade arrangement with the Yolngu custodians.
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