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Ochre Painting
String Making
Fire Making
Some Cultural
Information in the
Aboriginal Art & Culture Resources Kit
Includes...
Trade
There were many ancient trade routes along rivers and pathways throughout
Australia
and Aborigine people travelled and traded along these tracks for thousands
of years...
....In this way new dances, songs and stories travelled along
the Dreaming trail.
Some shared stories or song lines are shared between tribes and continue on
to connect all the tribes in Australia.........
Games
Big discs cut from Gum tree bark were used for a rolling, hunting game where
the
children practice throwing spears, hunting boomerangs and stones....
... The disc was quite strong and would be rolled from one big kid to the
next with the little ones trying to hit it.........
Palm leaves were used for towing kids or possessions much like a toy wagon.
Paper bark was heaped into a raft and used for youngsters to dive and fish from.
Underwater games were popular for example turtles were..
Fragile tiny spears and woomeras were made from reeds and sapling branches
and
String games told stories of ancient events and adventures by recalling significant points of the story as a pattern made by the string and fingers.
Kinship
............... Or a child can call every woman in their mothers section
of the tribe their mother and so on. Children from the unions between first
or second
group men and women then automaticaly go into the third or fourth groups ........generation
after that go back to the first or second again. In some tribes there were...
Shelter
We Indigenous Australian Aborigines gained all our food and shelter directly
from the land. Bark from the giant gum trees were a readily available source
of
sheeting to make into houses called humpies...
... the sheets were dried flat...Strips
can be to 2 metre wide and 20 ft long depending on the size of the tree and
the skill of the collector....
The bark will last years and replacement just a matter of getting the necessary
permission from the traditional owners of the trees. This would usually entail
giving ....
Protocol
Culture Survival
Basics
