Dreaming & Songlines
These are the special pathways across Australia remembered in songs.
What are songlines (or Dreaming tracks)?
This heavy material was often traded and wrapped in bark.
What is stone?
Clans gathered during times of plenty for this reason.
What is trade and ceremony?
These boats were important for fishing and trade.
What are canoes?
Ancestral beings created these natural features like rivers and rocks.
What are landmarks?
These flat stones were used to grind seeds into flour.
What are grinding stones?
Large freshwater animals that were feasted on.
What are eels?
Canoes were improved by adding these to help in rough seas.
What are sails (or masts)?
Songlines worked like this to help people travel across Country.
What are maps?
This red mineral was used for body decoration in ceremonies.
What is ochre?
These insects were collected, cooked and eaten in the mountains.
What are Bogong moths?
These sea animals were dried and traded.
What are turtle and dugong?
The Rainbow Serpent is an example of one of these beings.
What are ancestral beings?
These were sent ahead to safely announce a visit.
What are message sticks?
Trade helped communities survive and share these.
What are resources or goods?
Trade was important for this reason on the islands.
What is survival?
The songs helped pass these on to future generations.
What are stories and laws?
This shell item travelled very long distances in trade.
What is pearl shell?
Food was dried and wrapped so it could be this.
What is transported (or carried long distances)?
This shell item travelled very long distances in trade.
What is pearl shell?