Deceptichum@quokk.au to [Dormant] moved to !historyphotos@piefed.social@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago[Australia] An Eastern Arrernte man of the Arltunga district, Northern Territory, in 1923. His hut is decked with porcupine grass.quokk.auexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up1107arrow-down12
arrow-up1105arrow-down1external-link[Australia] An Eastern Arrernte man of the Arltunga district, Northern Territory, in 1923. His hut is decked with porcupine grass.quokk.auDeceptichum@quokk.au to [Dormant] moved to !historyphotos@piefed.social@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square7linkfedilink
minus-squareCypher@lemmy.worldBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 months agoThat doesn’t look very comfortable
minus-squarernercle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 months agoif you were there, you may have thought that any shelter that keeps you cool is more comfortable than being out under the sun
minus-squareAtelopus-zeteki@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoPorcupine grass sounds like something useful for keeping predators at a safer distance.
minus-squarernercle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agopredators? in Australia??
minus-squareAtelopus-zeteki@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months agoFWIW, the gardening pages I looked at in re: porcupine grass made no mention of them as being useful for deterring predators. So maybe the dude was just into landscaping?
![[Australia] An Eastern Arrernte man of the Arltunga district, Northern Territory, in 1923. His hut is decked with porcupine grass.](https://quokk.au/pictrs/image/2c74c204-6478-42ad-bdc6-328d6cfd7adf.jpeg){kind=link}
That doesn’t look very comfortable
if you were there, you may have thought that any shelter that keeps you cool is more comfortable than being out under the sun
Porcupine grass sounds like something useful for keeping predators at a safer distance.
predators? in Australia??
FWIW, the gardening pages I looked at in re: porcupine grass made no mention of them as being useful for deterring predators. So maybe the dude was just into landscaping?