What is the significance of Brewarrina fish traps?
The fish traps provide an important opportunity for Aboriginal children, visitors and researchers to understand and appreciate the culture of Aboriginal people of western NSW.
How are Brewarrina fish traps made?
Along with his sons Boomaooma-nowi and Ghinda-inda-mui, he is said to have built the traps using dug up stones and boulders. According to the story, Baiame then allocated the traps to different family groups, making them responsible for their use and maintenance.
How old are the Brewarrina Aboriginal fish traps?
40,000 years old
Can you visit Brewarrina fish traps?
Book a Tour A trip to Brewarrina is not complete without a guided tour with one of our guides. Tours take approx. 45min to 1 hour and will give you a comprehensive history of the Ancient Aboriginal Fish traps, Hospital Creek and appreciation for Mission life. Book online through our booking page.
What are Aboriginal fish traps made of?
On MurruĊga Island in the Crocodile Islands, fish traps made of twined pandanus palm leaf are still in use today. Though, for the most part, modern nylon nets have become the marine technology of choice for most Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
How did Aboriginal people engineered weirs and fish traps?
According to Aboriginal tradition, the ancestral creation being, Baiame, created the design by throwing his net over the river and, with his two sons Booma-ooma-nowi and Ghinda-inda-mui, built the fish traps to its shape. Native fish could not pass through the weir’s steep fishway.
What type of fish did Aboriginal eat?
mullet
How do Aboriginal people fish sustainably?
Wading into shallow water and spearing fish and rays. Wading into shallow water and using scoop nets. Paddling a canoe or other watercraft out to deep waters and fishing with a line and hook to catch fish. Stone fish traps were used in the past on the northern coast line.
Why is fishing important for indigenous people?
It also plays a role in ceremonial traditions, creating important ties between families and individuals and embodying their symbolic ties to the environment. The practice of catching fish affirms their worldviews and puts them into action in nature.
What is Aboriginal fire stick farming?
Fire-stick farming, also known as cultural burning and cool burning, is the practice of Aboriginal Australians regularly using fire to burn vegetation, which has been practised for thousands of years.
Is Firestick farming used today?
Currently, most fire stick farming occurs in the NT, northern QLD and northern WA. In 2018, for example, there were nearly 80 cultural burns across savannas in northern Australia. And each one of these programs provides environmental, economic, social and cultural benefits.
What sources did Bill Gammage use to write his groundbreaking The Broken Years?
Gammage is best known for his book The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War, which is based on his PhD thesis written while at the Australian National University. It was first published in 1974, and re-printed in 1975, 1980, 1981 (the year in which Peter Weir’s film, Gallipoli came out), 1985 and 1990.
Were aboriginal groups hunter gatherers or did they cultivate the land?
It has long been thought that prior to white settlement, Indigenous Australians lived a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Now some scholars argue that the first Australians practised forms of agriculture and aquaculture, writes Cathy Pryor.