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673 photos and 18 illustrations tagged aboriginal, from 12 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• indigenous
• firstnations
• naidoc
• australianhistory
• naidocweek
• aboriginalculture
• celebrationoffirstnations
• firstnationspeople
• truthtelling
• reconciliation
• queensland
• forourelders
• naidoc2023
• nationalportraitgallery
• reconciliationaustralia
• slq
• album
• ravenshoe
• woorabinda
• apa111
• mission
• australia
• state
• library

Members using this tag

• State Library of Queensland 604 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 45 photos & illustrations
• British Library 18 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 8 photos & illustrations
• Royal Australian Historical Society 5 photos & illustrations
• Musée McCord Stewart Museum 4 photos & illustrations
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
• National Science and Media Museum 1 photo / illustration
• Galt Museum & Archives on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 1 photo / illustration
• Cloyne and District Historical Society 1 photo / illustration

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos & illustrations:

Man climbing coconut palm tree at Yarrabah, 1933

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  TRADITIONAL ABORIGINAL FOOD-GATHERING : TREE-CLIMBING People climbed trees for a number of reasons: To catch possums, lizards, snakes and other native animals. (These animals were also removed from trees by lighting a fire below and smoking them out, and by throwing stones at the animal, knocking it out of the tree.) To collect eggs and young birds from nests. To collect fruit and seeds from high branches. To reach native beehives for honey and wax. Beeswax was used as a seal on water containers, as a resin when making weapons, and as a fixative when making body decorations. (People didn’t always climb trees to obtain honey. Sometimes they chopped the whole tree down instead. Also, some species of native bee make hives at ground level.) To chop and strip long sheets of bark to be used for canoe-making and shelters. Throughout much of Australia, a small hatchet with a stone head was used to cut toe holds into trees to assist in climbing. In these photos, taken in the rainforests of northern Queensland, strong jungle vines (lawyer-vines or lawyer-cane) are used like ropes to assist climbing trees in search of both animals and native bee hives’ wax and honey. Source: www.aboriginalculture.com.au/tree-climbing/

Portrait of David Unaipon (1872-1967), by Harold Cazneaux c.1934

from State Library of New South Wales

• Wit Ecogreen VN said:

  thats good

• minions & myrmidons said:

  love the image and thanks for the info.

Aboriginal women at Lelavale Cattle Station, North Queensland, 1896

from State Library of Queensland

• 4 older comments, and then…
• Flickr said:

  Congrats on Explore! ⭐ January 15, 2024

• gato-gato-gato said:

  Sehr schönes Bild, mag ich.

• Sigurd Krieger said:

  Congrats on Xplore!!

• Ian Betley said:

  Congrats on Explore! ❤📷❤ great image! regards.

• Steve Arena said:

  Great subject and photo! Congrats on Explore!