Indigenous Food & Tools

What Aboriginals eat

Aboriginal people used to and still do eat a wide variety of bush tucker. They have eaten many different ways they use the bush tucker they find. Some of those ways are eating, giving to animals, they use it to make paint or to put on their body for their dancing traditions they do. But the main reason is that they rely on it and they can not live without it. Since that was their food and back when white people haven't arrived yet they didn't have shops or tools to make crop fields. They just had to rely on the food they found around them in the bush.

Some of the things they eat are...

• Honey ants
• Bush tomatoes
• Edible roots
• Insect larva
• Wood cockroaches
• Mangrove worm
• Native Pear
• Native Cucumbers

More food they ate...

• Bush yam
• Bush coconut
• Damper
• Pig-weed seeds
• Quandong
• Witchetty Grub

Tools the Aboriginals made

They had to use lot's of different tools in the wild since they had to kill animals for food and warn off other tribes. So they had to make lot's of different tools for lot's of different things made out of lot's of different materials. Most of their weapons are made of wood, rocks and animals skin. They used lot's of wooden tools since that was easier to carve and hold than stone.

These are the most used tools that they made.

This is a boomerang. They used these to hit animals with. They this tool used quite a lot since they don't have to retrieve it since when you throw it and hit the animal, it comes flying straight back at you.