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Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Silcrete Block

This type of rock was used to make sharp scraping tools and spear ends.This fist sized block of silcrete is yellow white and shows percussion marks in indentations where chips have been knocked off for use.
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Basalt Digging Stone

Uncle Brien says this tool was used for collecting yabbies and mussles from water holes.This stone has been worked to a smooth curve around the edge , is flat on one side and curved on the other. The stone has 2 grooves carved on the blunt end for attaching a handle. This tool is similar to 0016.basalt digging stone, jaara, aboriginal stone tools.
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Basalt Digging Stone

.This stone was attached to a handle and possibly used to collect yabbies and shellfish from water holesA Basalt digging stone with a blunted edge shaped to a smooth curve. One side is flat and trhe other is convex. This item has 1 groove at the wide end for attaching a handle.basalt digging stone, jarra, aboriginal stone tools,
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Coolamon Dish, This item is made by taking bark from the tree, soaking it to make it pliable then shaping into a curve then direid slowly over heat to set the shape

This type of implement is used to gather food or if large enough, to carry a baby. The size of this item suggested it could have been used for either purpose. This is a women s implement.A bowl shaped dish, decorated with a witchety grub design.Witchety grub motive characteristic of the Central Desert tribes.coolamon dish, aboriginal wooden implements, central desert tribes.
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
digging Stick
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Nulla Nulla

This wooden hunting and fighting club is 46cm long. The club end is cone shaped with a sharp point
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Barbed wooden spear

This wooden spear has the sharped head bound to the shaft separately using sinew and resin. The barb on the spear head is also bound with sinew. A 3cm long section of sinew and resin hold the spearhead to the shaft
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Barbed wooden spear

This wooden spear has the tip and spear shaft fashioned from one piece of wood. Sinew and resin are used to reinforce the neck of the spear. The tip is flattened and barbed. The barb is bound to the tip with sinew.
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
barbed wooden spear with angled tail extension

This wooden spear has separate tip, barb and tail extensions bound by sinew and resin. The spear head is flattened on the barb side and sharpened to a fine point. The side opposite the barb is convex. The shaft has a tail extension which is 25cm long and bound with resin and sinew to the shaft at an angle of 20 degrees.The head has a subtle cross hatch design between the barb and the neck.
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Short wooden spear with angled tail

This short wooden barbed spear (138.5cm) has the head and tail bound separately to the shaft using sinew and resin. The tail is angled at about 20 degrees to the shaft. The barb is also bound to the head with sinew at 9cm from the spear tip.
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Short wooden spear with angled tail

This compound wooden spear with separate head, barb and tail is bound with resin and sinew. The tail is bound at an angle of 20 degrees to the shaft.
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
hand held greenstone axe

This greenstone axe has a hand grip chipped on one end and a smooth arc shaped cutting edge.
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Hand held hammer stone

This greenstone hand held hammer is sharpened to a fine curved cutting edge at one end and is chipped for grip at the other - It would suit a large hand.
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Handheld greenstone axe

This hand held greenstone axe has been roughened for grip at one end and sharpened to a smooth square edge.
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Silcrete flaked tool

large flaked tool
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Flaked stone tool

this flaked stone tool clearly shows the difference between the original rock surface and hand worked surfaces with clear percussive chip marks.
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Aldo Massola, Bunjil's cave : legends and superstitions of the Aborigines of South-East Australia, 1968

Stories from the Aboriginal people of South-East Australia. Includes Creation Stories, Myths and legends. Written in two sections, The myths and The Land Beyond the Sky. Includes location lists.Maps, b&w photographs, illustrationswotjobaluk, mara, kulin, kurnai, murray river, myths, legends, creation stories
Koorie Heritage Trust
Book, Lewis, Robert, Budja Budja / Gariwerd - Halls Gap / Grampians : Primary Activity Book, 1992
[Contents: The Brambuk Centre - Outside; The Brambuk Centre - Inside; How did the Kooris of Gariwerd Gather Food?; A Dreamtime Story - The story of Bunjil; 'I Spy...'; A Plant Hunt; Find the Words; Koori Rock Art.
9 p. : ill., map ; 30 cm.[Contents: The Brambuk Centre - Outside; The Brambuk Centre - Inside; How did the Kooris of Gariwerd Gather Food?; A Dreamtime Story - The story of Bunjil; 'I Spy...'; A Plant Hunt; Find the Words; Koori Rock Art.community organisations -- cultural activities (including preservation and/or promotion of traditional culture). other: brambuk living cultural centre -- budja budja -- gariwerd -- halls gap -- grampians -- education.
Koorie Heritage Trust
Book, Banfield, Lorna. L, Green Pastures and Gold: A history of Ararat, 1974
Early contacts between Thomas Mitchell and Aboriginal peoples and the later violent encounters involving settlers and squatters. The work and contacts of G.A. Robinson among the various peoples of the Western District. Gatherings of many Aboriginal peoples at Lake Bolac for eeling season, during which there was also trading of sandstone, obsidian and other materials for weapons and spears. Photograph of Jenny 'Ware' "the last of the Fiery Creek tribe of the Aboriginies" facing page 20.
v-xi; 146 p.; ports;maps; index; bib.; appendics; footnotes; 22 cm.Early contacts between Thomas Mitchell and Aboriginal peoples and the later violent encounters involving settlers and squatters. The work and contacts of G.A. Robinson among the various peoples of the Western District. Gatherings of many Aboriginal peoples at Lake Bolac for eeling season, during which there was also trading of sandstone, obsidian and other materials for weapons and spears. Photograph of Jenny 'Ware' "the last of the Fiery Creek tribe of the Aboriginies" facing page 20.ararat -- victoria -- history |, aborigines, ararat district-conflict-social life and customs-bunjil's cave| place names- weapons and implements-hunting
Pyrenees Shire Council
painting, Melville Robinson, Bunjil's Shelter I by Melville Robinson

significant as a work of art by local Pyrenees artist, locally significant to the Central Highlands Region of Victoria as a representation of local landscape and/or culture painting of a rockSigned: Melville R (lower right)