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Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Axehead, 40,000 B.P
... jaara jaara people... axehead mt camel jaara jaara people jaara waisted quarries tree ...Green stone granite axehead highly sharpened and beautifully fashioned at one end with rough hewn markings over the body of the object. Axe has a "waist" mid section where handle would have been attached. Also evidence of extensive wear from use. This axehead was quarried at one of only two green stone granite sights in Australia both in Victoria. Scarring at one end of the axehead where it has been split from larger piece of granite.defence, food, preparation, green stone granite, axehead, mt camel, jaara jaara people, jaara, waisted, quarries, tree cutting, weapon making -
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
boomerang, (estimated); late 20th century
... jaara jarra people... snake turtle kangaroo creek duck hunting ducks jaara jaara jaara ...boomerang made from Murray River Red Gum timber. decorated boomerang, used for killing low flying ducks. Each end has a black tip with white cross hatching. Animal painted decorations from left to right are: black snake with yellow stripes, ochre platypus, black coloured kangaroo, yellow turtle, black, ochre and white wavy lines followed by a red snake with black and white stripes. On reverse apex of boomerang burnt into timber "Murray River / Red Gum"platypus, boomerang, river, decorated, hunting tool, snake, turtle, kangaroo, creek, duck hunting, ducks, jaara jaara, jaara jarra people -
Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Map, Original titles map of Lake Condah and surrounds, Condah, County of Normanby
... the land identified as Aboriginal Reserves. Aboriginal people... people including the Jaara were forcibly removed from ...This map shows the area around Lake Condah including the land identified as Aboriginal Reserves. Aboriginal people including the Jaara were forcibly removed from their country and resettled in reserves like this. This map is significant as it shows one of the areas that Jaara people were forcibly removed to from their homelands.