Deceptichum@quokk.au to [Dormant] moved to !historyphotos@piefed.social@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 个月前[Australia] An Eastern Arrernte man of the Arltunga district, Northern Territory, in 1923. His hut is decked with porcupine grass.quokk.auexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-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 · 7 个月前message-square7fedilink
minus-squarernercle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·7 个月前if 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-up3·7 个月前Porcupine grass sounds like something useful for keeping predators at a safer distance.
minus-squareAtelopus-zeteki@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 个月前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?
![[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}
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?