They were mostly macassans from the kingdom of gowa (now in southern sulawesi. In china, trepang was considered a culinary delight and an aphrodisiac. ‘we learned that they were prows from macassar, and six malay commanders shortly afterwards came on board in a canoe.
» Trepang Trade
Originally, its fishing and trade was a specialized business, centred on the town of makassar in south sulawesi (indonesia).
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Trepanging is the act of collection or harvesting of sea cucumbers, known in indonesian as trepang, malay těripang, and used as food.the collector, or fisher, of trepang is a trepanger. The paintings and installations in this exhibition tell the fascinating tale of australian aboriginal and asian exchange that centred on the trepang trade from the early 18th century to early 20th cenyury. At the height of the trade, as many as sixty praus carrying between 1,000 and 2,000 makassans spent four to five months of the year gathering trepang. Trepang is still used in china as food and medicine.
[noun] any of several large sea cucumbers (as of the genera actinopyga and holothuria) that are taken mostly in the southwestern pacific and are boiled, dried, and used especially in asian cuisine —
Proof of trading is also seen in the visual depictions at rock art sites. The product fetched considerable amounts of money in makassar for the fleet financiers, who enjoyed high. It was a trade that brought thousands of men from the muslim port of macassar in east indonesia to the arnhem and kimberley coasts, and was worth millions of dollars in todays money. That trepang trade was occurring since at least the seventeenth century.
The knowledge of chinese people on trepang in the qing dynasty trepang (or, sea cucumber in english;
Indiedb top 100 2017, 2018 and 2019. The rise of trepang fishing in. Historically, trepang trade was a specialized business, almost completely in the hand of makassarese, bugis, and bajau. However, the dates of found objects and rock art do not preclude earlier trade or visitors from asia
Trading (installation scales, trepangs) 250 x 1400cm.
Because of its importance as an item of trade, and certainly also because of its unusual appearance to early european travellers, there are a number of historical sources available allowing us to follow the history of trepang. Trepanging is comparable to clamming, crabbing, lobstering, musseling, shrimping and other forms of fishing whose goal is the acquisition of edible invertebrates rather than fish It belongs to holothuroidea in zoology and shows a great variety in terms of shape and colour. That is the reason it is called haishen (xie 1959:259).
Because of its importance as an item of trade, and certainly also because of its unusual appearance to early european travellers, there are a number of historical sources available allowing us to follow the history of trepang.
Haishen 'ifij~ in mandarin) is an echinoderm living in coastal waters; Similarly, evidence of contact and trade appears in bark paintings and aboriginal oral histories. The trepang industry in australian waters was comparatively large and well organised. Similar to other products, trepang flowed through a shifting hierarchy of collecting points where cargoes were assembled.
Historically, trepang trade was a specialized business, almost completely in the hand of makassarese, bugis, and bajau.
Based on radiocarbon dating for apparent prau (boat) designs in aboriginal rock art, some scholars have proposed contact from as early as the 1500s. Northern territory sites are well documented, but the. Heritage consultant mike owen from the past masters history group agrees the boom in the trepang trade occurred in the 18th century, but believes the makassans were coming to australia from at. By the end of the 19th century visits from makasar to northern australia to gather trepang.
