In , the museum acquired around 30 toys originally collected by Walter Edmund Roth, from Cape York and Channel Country in Queensland several years earlier. Roth was a physician and anthropologist with an interest in Aboriginal people.
Appointed Protector of Aboriginals for the Northern District of Queensland in , he travelled widely and recorded various aspects of aboriginal culture.
There are several beautiful gourd spinning tops, some of which are decorated with red and white pigment. The gourds tops have a small hole pierced in the side so that they make a whistling sound when spun. Roth also collected baby rattles made of shells; dolls made from slightly bent sticks with twine skirts; and folded, Z-shaped pandanus leaves that imitate the flight of a boomerang when thrown. As in all cultures, toys are designed to both amuse, educate and prepare the child for adulthood. Roth observed boys and girls playing at hunting and preparing food, the boys playing with toy boomerangs, spears, woomeras and shields while the girls played with dolls, baskets and digging sticks.
The American Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land collected around ethnographic objects, including more than toys. A team of Australian and American scientists spent several months in the then little-known Arnhem region, Northern Territory NT , studying Indigenous people, wildlife and the natural environment.
While most are unornamented conical shells, several were wrapped in fabric. According to McCarthy, these were used by both boys and girls to represent the different members of their families and were moved about in various groupings.
The larger shells represented the parents, while the smaller ones were the children. The shell dolls are similar to different-sized eucalyptus leaves in the collection from Yuendumu NT , which children would arrange differently to represent various social groupings. Also collected by McCarthy were string figures from Yirrkala, which were largely used for amusement, but also ceremonial purposes.
Different designs or patterns were created on the hands of the maker, usually a woman, with a looped piece of string. Each figure represented something different, including people and their activities, weapons, ornaments, animals and the natural environment, and were given different names.
There are some interesting modern toys in the collection which demonstrate the resourcefulness of children in remote regions of the country. While there are differences in the toys and games used in different areas of the country by Indigenous children, they all served the same purpose: to amuse and to educate.
The proposed centre, to be called Ngurra, which means home, country or place of belonging in different Aboriginal languages, will incorporate a learning and knowledge centre and the relocated Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Aiatsis.
It will be built on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin on Ngunnawal country in Canberra within the parliamentary triangle that includes other prominent national institutions. A national resting place for ancestral remains was formally recommended to government in when an advisory committee for Indigenous repatriation completed the national resting place consultation report. Borna jokee. Brajerack Video. Bubu sagul. Diyari koolchee.
Two teams lined up on opposite ends of a dry claypan rolling their balls to the other end and trying to break the other team's balls. This traditional Aboriginal game ended when almost all balls were used and takes its name from the word 'kolchee' for the balls. A traditional game from the Gunditjmara people in Victoria. The name comes from a corroboree by the Djabwurrung and Jardwadjali clans in Victoria's Western District [5].
Marngrook is said to be the Aboriginal game that provided the first lawmakers of football with some of the fundamentals of the game millions know and love as Australian Rules Aussie Rules Football [9] , a view which is not totally undisputed. The show came to be due to a lack of Indigenous people in any of the other football shows.
A running game children of Arnhem Land in northern Australia played in the flickering lights from the firebrands of the grown-ups sitting about a camp site. The parndo ball was made with a piece of opossum skin, flattish in shape and about the size of a. Puloga was played in the Cardwell and Tully River regions of North Queensland and is played like dodge ball.
A keepings-off style of game traditionally played throughout Australia. Players prevent themselves from being tagged while in possession of a ball which can vary in size but is normally made of bound animal skin with either grass or charcoal filling. The game doesn't have a point system, but is more of an engaging game aimed to enhance life skills. Purlja is a game like football that the Warlpiri Aboriginal people north-west of Alice Springs played for thousands of years.
A mock combat game like 'poison ball' or 'brandy'. Toy spears made from grasses, reeds and rushes were thrown, sometimes with a toy throwing stick woomera. This traditional Aboriginal game was played by both girls and boys. Children collected the seed heads of the spring rolling grass Spinifex and took them to the beach where they tossed them into the air. The wind blew them along and the children tried to catch them running at full speed. This traditional game was played by girls only.
A short piece of stick was placed on the ground to represent a baby. Each girl had to defend her child from the digging sticks of the other girls who pretended to try to kill the baby by throwing the sticks at the 'mother'. The mother tried to fend them off using her own digging stick 'wana'. Wana taught girls to defend their young children. Sometimes adult women stood by the side of their men to ward off the attack of a rival tribe. This traditional game was known in Western Australia.
A stone bowling game where one player threw a stone which was then used as a target by the next player. Players alternated turns. This traditional game was known to the Walbiri people of Central Australia. A fireside game.
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