FOOTNOTE [6] ­ CORRUGATED IRON: Materiality and Placedness

tin/bark canoe: It is possible to construct a rudimentary canoe from a sheet of corrugated iron in much the same way as Australian Aboriginal people made canoes from the bark of some kinds of eucalypt ­ 'gum' ­ trees.

Note: Aboriginal people didn't kill a tree just to get its bark as they only took the bark they needed albeit that it would scar the tree ­ such trees are now called scar-trees or canoe-trees. Conversely every tree that yielded bark for a settler's hut must have died as all the bark was removed albeit that the timber was also put to some use ­ fuel, fencing, construction, etc.