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Mutton-bird Tickler


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      Date: 1920 -

Description: A length of dried bracken fern stalk, slightly frayed at one end, used to "tickle" or encourage mutton-birds to come to the front of their burrows so that they could be caught. One of the original artefacts in the replica mutton-bird processing shed.

Format: realia
Object: brushes

Titles:
Mutton-bird Tickler

Subjects: mutton-birds

People/Orgs: Willis, Frank and Heather

Institution: Furneaux Historical Research Association Inc.

Object number: FHR_00505

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