100-year-old gum tree stump transformed into sculpture

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A 100-year-old manna gum stump in Toorongo Valley has been transformed into a 7.5m First Nations sculpture. Footage by Forest Fire Management Victoria with added music

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00:00Is it a truly special place here at Toronto Valley? Before this was a Cape

00:10Ground walkway those First Nations people indulging in the richness of this valley.

00:18Hunting and fishing and sharing dream palm stories. You have brought the First Nations

00:24connection back to the land. I knew this stuff was going to be good but I didn't know it was

00:29going to look for this wood.

00:39I thought I would call this sculpture Aunty Ireland's Gift because it is a gift that keeps

00:46giving the more you look and the more you say and the more you feel the connection.

00:59So

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