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What are these?

Totems

Sacred Woolakook sticks

Pooki Wookies

Pukamani Poles

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What are these?

Arrows

Forks

Spears

Knives

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What are these?

Stone crutches

Stone hockey sticks

Stone axes

Stone mattocks

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What are these?

Message rocks

Game tokens

Dreamtime pebbles

Story stones

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What are these?

Water carriers

Coolamons

Pickle bags

Dilly bags

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What are these?

Woolaroo

Worrigal

Waratah

Woomera

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Heavy wooden tools used to hit things. They were useful in hunting and sometimes used in dances or special ceremonies.

Spears

Woomera

Clubs

Bullroarer

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Tall decorated poles placed at burial sites in the Tiwi Islands. They are carved and painted to honour the person who has passed away.

Yarraman

Pukamani Poles

Billabong

Padamelons

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Shallow wooden bowls used to carry food, water, or even babies. Made from hollowed-out tree bark.

Coolamon

Corella

Kurajong

Quandong

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Carved wooden sticks that were sent between different groups to share messages or invitations. Like an early kind of mail.

Story sticks

Digging sticks

Message sticks

Clap sticks

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Long hollow wooden instruments. When blown into, they make a deep buzzing sound used in music and ceremonies.

Bullroarer

Maracas

Didgeridoo

Rainstick

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A special tool used to throw spears much farther and faster. It worked like a lever to give extra power.

Wallawani

Wonga wonga

Wollie

Woomera

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The oral histories and creation myths of the Australian Aboriginal people

Nightmares

Dreamtime

Daydream

Lucid dreams

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A traditional Indigenous land management practice that involves setting fires to manage and enhance the environment

Fire stick burning

Bunsen burners

Campfire coals

Bushfires

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The deep and meaningful relationship Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have with their land, sea, and sky

Kinship

The Dreaming

Connection to Country

Love of the land

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Individuals respected for their wisdom, cultural knowledge, and community service.

Police

Principals

Elders

Grandparents

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