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Awl

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Len Tregonning
Gunnai. Born 1954

Awl
2009
Bone, kangaroo sinew
15 x 1.8 x 1 cm
Koorie Heritage Trust AH3742

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Copyright Len Tregonning

A Strong Arm And A Good Eye - Weapons and Tools

All the Old People would have a bone of a kangaroo and they would have a hole in the end and have it hanging round their neck so they could find it anytime.

CONNIE HART Gunditjmara

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Black Crow

Lake Tyrell

Bunjil

Snake and Water-lilies

Boorun the Pelican

Ponponpoorramook

Winanggual (to listen)

Emu Egg (rock painting)

Den of Nargun

Woongi: Corroboree at Barmah Forest

Music sticks

Nanyak - To Dream

Possum Skin Cloak (painting)

Possum Skin Cloak

Necklace

Emu feather skirt

Feather flowers

Headdress

Eel pot

Framlingham Basket

Basket

Eel trap

Canoe

Boomerang (mid 19th century)

Boomerang

Stone Axe Clubs Spearthrowers

Thung-ung Coorang (Kangaroo Teeth)

Gunnai/Kurnai Tribal Shields

Parrying shield

Awl

George Watmore Speared by Blacks

Metung

Half-caste Dreaming

Post Colonisation Remedies

Wathaurung Mob

Reconciliation

Goanna Survival

Big Red

Koori Shields Series

Victorian Aboriginal Cultural Groups

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