Ch. 1. Plants into artefacts -- ch. 2. The Australian Aboriginal Toolkit -- ch. 3. Ephemeral Subsistence tools -- ch. 4. Camp life ephemera -- ch. 5. Working with green timber -- ch. 6. Sticking things together -- ch. 7. Universal wrappers of bark and broad-leaves -- ch. 8. From fibre to object -- ch. 9. Plants to decorate -- ch. 10. Aboriginal artefacts in transition -- ch. 11. The 'new' material culture -- ch. 12. Plants, artefacts and cultural identity
Summary
Summary: Australian plants have provided the Aborigines with weapons, tools, shelter, watercraft, ceremonial objects, clothing, ornaments and paint. This book shows how the hunter gatherers lived and similarities and differences of plants uses across Australia
Analysis
ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS
Australian
TOOLS
WILD PLANTS
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-338) and index