Aunty Enid shows students various artefacts and explains their uses at Tout Park during the Songline Excursion.
- Kangaroo skin – Kangaroo skin was used as clothing to keep warm. It could be made into a cloak by joining several skins together.
- Stone artefacts – Small grinding stones could be used to grind up ochre for painting, as well as for grinding up seeds.
- Stone axe – Stone axes are used to carve utensils and weapons from certain trees.
- Flakes – Flaked off another stone (core), used as sharp cutting implements, such as knife blades and spearheads. A saw can also be made from a number of flakes together.
- Coolamon – A carrying bowl for food and water, and also used for carrying babies.
- Bullroarer – Men’s business. Only used by men. Used in ceremony and also known as the ‘bush telephone’.
- Boomerang – This is a hunting tool.
- Paperbark – Paperbark has numerous important uses from cooking to housing, tourniquets and water rafts due to its waterproof nature. Paperbark trees are an indication that there is water present at the base of the tree when grown in natural form.
- Stringybark – Used for weaving and making nets. When plaited together, it is as strong as a metal chain.
- Bundi (nulla nulla) – A Bundi or nulla nulla is a fighting club and is used by men and women for hunting small reptiles, such as lizards.
- Grinding stone – The large grinding stone is used to grind the seeds. This makes flour, which is mixed with water to make bread.
- Gumnut jewellery
