Aboriginal Bush Tools by Naomi Wilfred

“This design shows the Aboriginal tools that our past generation used. They had to make their own tools. My design has stone axe, shovel spear, the number 7 boomerang, the normal boomerang, the gulimun – we make that out of paperbark and carry the black currents (djupi berries). Sometimes people still use these tools – like if a croc comes out of the billabong, or a Barra, they can use the shovel spear, or maybe knock a kangaroo down with that. We’ve got the clapstick for when we have corroboree, and when we have the little babies born we put them in the gulimun. If you want to make a baby go to sleep – you sing them songs, and rock them.

Today when we look at these tools – it’s a bit funny – we think 'how did those tools work for them?' If we do it, it might not work for us!”