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Grindstone

Grindstone

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Grindstone
Artefact Collection
Pre- European contact

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Koorie Heritage Trust Inc.

In the early 1980s this grindstone was donated the CEO of the Aboriginal Legal Service and an Inspector under the Archaeological and Aboriginal Relics Act (Vic) 1972. This grindstone is the first item collected on behalf of what was to become the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Trust, known today as the Koorie Heritage Trust.

Story objects

The Vision for a Trust

Protecting, Preserving and Promoting Koorie Culture and Heritage

Koorie Culture is Unique

Tommy McRae

Uncle Sandy Atkinson talks of the Old Murray Cod

Grindstone

Parrying Shield

Spear Shield

Club

Marngrook (possum skin football)

Club made by William Barak

Parrying Shield made by William Barak

Weet weet

Mission Station Dimboola

Basket

The First Australian 11

Buckley ran away from ship

Buckley with a group of Aborigines