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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of deceased people. Review: Linear, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. ... Grinding stone and mill, maker ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures ... The Bama people understood that this property of metamorphic slate prevents the accumulation of toxin s in the grinding tool. ... Records of the Australian Museum, 36(3), 131-151. Flood, J. (1983).

TarraWarra Museum of Art's latest exhibition begins with a room that Wurundjeri curator Stacie Piper calls the "Welcome to Country". The songs of Djirri Djirri, a Wurundjeri women's dance group ...

Grinding stones are slabs of stone that Aboriginal people used to grind and crush different materials. Find out how to spot and protect them.

New vision of Adelaide's Aboriginal art museum. The Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre by Diller Scofidio and Renfro and Woods Bagot. Diller Scofidio and Renfro and Woods Bagot's design for the Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre (AACC) at the former Royal Adelaide Hospital site on Kaurna land has been submitted for planning assessment.

According to the "Australian Museum," the pigments and tools they discovered are the earliest proof or evidence of the Aboriginals' day to day activities and cultures, such as the usage of edge-ground hatchets, seed grinding, and pigment-processing. 300 Centuries Ago (30,000 years ago)

Indigenous Peoples Dioramas. Based on archaeological site excavations by the New York State Museum, three detailed dioramas highlight changes in Native American lifeways and society across the New York region. These interpretive scenes include (1) Ice Age hunters in the Hudson Valley, 13-12,000 years ago, (2) Holocene hunter-gatherers in the ...

Recorded and Known Sites In the Vicinity of Dyungungoo In an Aboriginal Cultural Heritage assessment of the eastern portion of the Maroochy Shire a total of 61 Aboriginal archaeological sites were located. The site types recorded included stone artefact scatters, scarred trees, a bora ground (durrn), shell middens and axe grinding grooves.

A broken grinding stone was found nearby (a common burial item among Southern California aboriginal people). The remains of a domestic dog were also found nearby, long believed to have been buried with La Brea Woman, perhaps as part of a ceremonial process.

Dispossessing and collecting. In the 1870s, police Sub-Inspector Alexander Douglas, noted for his role in violent dispersals of Aboriginal people, sent the Queensland Museum ancestral remains and ...

The Aboriginal axe grinding grooves at Tuggeranong Hill, Theodore Australian Capital Territory.The grinding grooves are located on an area of exposed flat ro...

A lmost 250 years after James Cook's arrival paved the way for Indigenous dispossession, federal parliament will debate a call for the return of …

The conspicuous geologic features of the central Australian landscape such as Uluru for thousands of generations, served as gathering points for Aboriginal peoples from many different language...

A number of grinding-stone quarries are known from the north of South Australia and Central Australia, some only recently studied in a systematic manner. M A Smith, I McBryde and J Ross. 2010. The economics of grindstone production at Narcoonowie quarry, Strzelecki Desert. Australian Aboriginal Studies 2010/1: 92-99.

Take a guided Aboriginal tour with Peter from First Lesson Cultural Tours, to the Terramungamine Rock Grooves, 150 grinding grooves created over thousands of years by Tubbagah Aboriginal people shaping their tools and sharpening their spears on a hundred metres of rock. The reserve is only a short drive north of the town centre.

The magnificent Western Plains Cultural Centre is both a gallery and a museum and the Dubbo Heritage Walk is a great way to admire ornate architecture and explore the stories of pioneers and bushrangers. Explore ancient Aboriginal grinding grooves in the Terramungamine Reserve.

Harbour Federation Trust (SHFT) and Mosman Council undertook an Aboriginal heritage study of the Mosman Local Government Area. The Australian Museum Business Services (AMBS) and the MLALC carried out the study. This work is a simplification of the AMBS 2005 Final Report, Aboriginal Heritage

Image Australian museum (here) There are two reported sites of Aboriginal grinding grooves located in Canberra, one on the Tuggeranong Creek in Theodore (post here) and the other on the Ginninderra Creek in Latham (post here). Grinding grooves were formed by the grinding of one stone against another surface of stone.

Grinding grooves (rock engravings) of and kangaroo tracks have been found at King Tablelands in the Blue Mountains. Excavation of this shelter revealed that Aboriginal people were living there 22,000 years ago. King Tablelands is the the oldest dated Aboriginal site in the Blue Mountains and is listed as a heritage site.

Anna Russo, the museum's Aboriginal heritage and repatriation manager, explains while gesturing to several square shelf metres of boxes: "These here are all from the anatomy school ...

A new exhibition at the Fowler Museum at UCLA will be the first ever in the U.S. devoted to the work of contemporary textile artists from Aboriginal-owned and operated art centers in northern Australia. Since the 1960s, screenprinting has become a vital form of Indigenous expression, perpetuating traditional knowledge and reinvigorating its ...

Aboriginal people made stone tools by removing a sharp fragment of a piece of stone. Find out how to spot and protect them.

Aboriginal legends could offer a vast untapped record of natural history, including meteorite strikes, stretching back thousands of years, according to new UNSW research. Dr Duane Hamacher from the UNSW Indigenous Astronomy Group has uncovered evidence linking Aboriginal stories about meteor events with impact craters dating back some 4,700 years.

No Caption. Three Aboriginal Women holding coolamons '[Illegible] grass seed in hole at base of tree - using sliding movement of feet MacDonald Downs 8/1930' No Caption. Aboriginal Woman grinding grass seed with feet. No Caption. Aboriginal Woman winnowing grass seed '[Illegible] Macdonalds Downs 8/1938' winnowing grass seed ith feet

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The Dunkeld Museum has a variety of Aboriginal artefacts including a message stick, boomerangs, spears and spear throwers, a parrying shield and a fighting club. It also has a range of stone artefacts such as grinding stones and axes. The artefacts came to the Museum via a local farming family…

Wedged between the northern railway line and the (old) Pacific Highway is the Mt Ku-ring-gai Aboriginal site. Described as one of an "outstanding series of rock engravings known in the Sydney-Hawkesbury district", this site was first documented by Robert Etheridge (a staff member and later director of Sydney's Australian Museum) in 1904.

The National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families (i.e ... These portraits were later exhibited locally and at the Perth Museum and toured across the state. ... of cultural understandings and practices that enabled them to survive on the fringes where they experienced grinding poverty ...

Allen has described the ethnographic evidence and archaeological significance of grinding stones in the local and regional Aboriginal economies. There is abundant ethnographic evidence for the processing of grass seeds, which have been identified as a major subsistence base in the arid regions of mainland Australia (Tindale 1977 ).

Total number of Aboriginal remains estimated to be held in Australian museums. 1,400 Number of remains Museum Victoria approved for deaccession between 1984 and 2014. In June 2015 the museum still held 1,527 Aboriginal remains. 7,300 Days it took the National History Museum, England, to return remains to Tasmanian Aboriginal people. 8

A Brief Aboriginal History. "The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.". Since the European invasion of Australia in 1788, the Aboriginal people have been oppressed into a world unnatural to their existence, a way of life that had continued for thousands of years. First came the influx of the strangers who ...