<font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">6 July, 2012 8:19AM AEST<br><br>Indigenous culture recovered<br><br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">By Gerard Callinan</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">AUS<br>
<br>The passing on of skills, tradition and culture happen every day in every interaction between generations. However a project that saw the skills of building a bark canoe passed from Gunai/Kurnai Elder Uncle Albert Mullet to his grandson has particular significance.<br>
<br>The Boorun's Canoe project will be the feature exhibition at the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Culture Centre at the Melbourne Museum during NAIDOC Week.<br><br></font><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">Featuring Gippslanders Cameron Cope and Steaphan Paton, it follows them and other young men being taught how to strip bark from a tree and construct a canoe under the instruction of Gunai/Kurnai Elder Uncle Albert Mullett, Steaphan's grandfather.<br>
</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">Access full article below:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/07/04/3538786.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/07/04/3538786.htm</a></font></div>
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