Description

Our Aboriginal cultural tour will deliver an insight into how Aboriginal people used the land to survive, their traditional practices, the bush tucker they ate, the bush tools they used and their spiritual beliefs from the Dreaming. (Dream-Yarrudhang)

The Tumut River (Bila - Wiradjuri for river) was the meeting place for a number of Aboriginal tribes including the Wiradjuri, Ngungawal and Gumal. They would meet for trade and preparation for ceremony on the Gumal ceremony line. This is a traditional pathway for people travelling to and from the mountains to the coast in line with the changing seasons.

Aboriginal peoples movements were governed by the landscape and the seasonal changes that affected food and shelter resources. For example during the warmer months of the year Aboriginal people would move inland to less sheltered landscapes where they would collect food such as berries, nuts, fruit and meats including Kangaroo, Goanna and Possum. In winter Aboriginal people would move to coastal regions such as Wreck Bay which provided rock shelter in coastal escarpments. Food sources would include a range of fruits, berries, nuts and a protein source mainly consisting of fish species.

Rates From : $25.00



Tour Options

Wiradjuri Wonders Tour - Basic

Own vehicle required, no transport provided.

Morning Tour - Traditional Pathways and Bush Tucker

We start our day with an acknowledgement of Country to show respect for the traditional custodians of this land and the tribal Elders both past and present of the Wiradjuri People.

9.00 am - Travel to Hamilton’s Stone Monument. This monument was put in place to tell the story of Hamilton an Aboriginal guide and mediator between the first settlers and Aboriginal people of the Tumut Valley.

9.30 am - Travel to Janey’s Creek. Here we visit a traditional Aboriginal campsite to view artefacts and a hearth (ground oven). Here you will also see traditional pathways such as the path to Gumal ceremony lines.

10.00am - Morning Tea. Not provided, please bring your own.

10.45am - Bush Tucker tour of Jounama Creek, discover how traditional foods were collected and used as well as plants collected for medicinal purposes.

12.30pm - Lunch stop. Lunch not provided please bring your own.

Afternoon Tour - Traditional Tool Making and Hunting Techniques.

1.30pm - Learn the fine arts of traditional rope making and basket weaving techniques. Test the strength of rope made by you.

2.00pm - Learn how spears were an important part of survival for the custodians of this country. Prepare and take home a spear.

3.00pm - Paint a boomerang to take home and keep using traditional Aboriginal patterns.

4.00pm - End of day.

Thank you (Mandaang guwu)

Rate From: $25.00






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