Wamba Wamba

Years 7/8 Science, Geography Design and Technology

Interact with communities to explore their cultural knowledge and stories

Ḻiya-Dhälinymirr

Mungo

Protocols for welcoming visitors on Country have always been part of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and offer visitors safe passage and protection. Respect this by experiencing each community’s Welcome to Country first before navigating the lands. 

Tools and Technology Discovery Maps

Bangerang

Wamba Wamba Community 

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Welcome to Wamba Wamba Country! We invite you to watch the Welcome and read about the Storytellers and community. Make your way around Wamba Wamba Country to learn about how various natural materials may be used in a smoking ceremony. Find out about how various trees are used for making tools, weapons and other resources!  On your journey reflect on these questions: 1. What is a smoking ceremony?  2. How did Uncle Ron use the leaves in the Welcome? What did each leaf represent? 4. What significance do smoking ceremonies have in First Nations histories and cultures?5. What other cultures around the world use smoke or fire as an integral part of their ceremonial practices? How might we find this out? 6. What can we learn from First Nations knowledges and how might these support connectedness and appreciation of diversity? 

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Tools and Technology Map

Welcome

Canoe

Tools and Technology Map

Boomerang

Welcome to Bangerang Country! We invite you to watch the Welcome and read about the Storytellers. Make your way around Bangerang Country to find out about how various trees are used for making tools, weapons and other resources!  On your journey reflect on these questions:1. When (Uncle) Kevin Atkinson said ‘My people hardly used the boomerang’, why do you think that is?  2. How could you find out if the boomerang was used in your local community?  3. What environmental factors influenced the tools and resources used in First Nations communities pre and post colonisation?  4. How do methods of treating wood pre colonisation differ from the methods used today? Investigate the purpose of wood treatment and write a list of the various types of processes commonly used in the timber preservation industry. 

Subscribe to Jajoo Warrngara to download unit plans and worksheets to go with this Discovery Map. Further explore First Nations tools and technology with David Unapin’s research on how the Boomerang Principle influenced aerodynamics! 

Bangerang Community 

Stone Knapping

Knapping

Subscribe to Jajoo Warrngara to download unit plans and worksheets. Explore the Lake Mungo Region and its incredible history and make edible rock creations to understand sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks!

Mungo Community 

Rope Making

Welcome to Barkandji, Mutthi Mutthi and Ngiyampaa Country! We invite you to watch each of the community Welcomes and  read about the communities. Make your way around the Willandra Lakes region where the Barkandji, Mutthi Mutthi and Ngiyampaa people all hold inherent creation stories, to explain the origins and land formations.  Explore some of the first forms of engineering with the stone knapping and rope making processes!  On your journey reflect on these questions:1. Why is the landscape so unique in the Lake Mungo Region?  2. What geomorphological processes are responsible for the state of the lake today?3. What are some of the uses for the trees Uncle Ernie shows us in the film? What did he mean by ‘bush mechanics’? 4. What type of rock is used in stone knapping?5. What resources can be made from stone knapping and how might this have been valued in communities before colonisation? 

The Wamba Wamba people traditionally occupy both Victorian and New South Wales sides of the Murray river in the Murray and Lower Darling Rivers region. Deniliquin, Moulamein and Swan Hill are all within Wamba Wamba borders.  Ron Murray is a Wamba Wamba Elder from Swan Hill, and works as a Cultural Educator across many different areas. 

Wamba Wamba Community

The Bangerang People are the people of the tall trees. Their Country encompasses the North East of Victoria and the Southern Riverina Murray of New South Wales.  ‘My name's Kevin Atkinson, I'm from the Moiraduban, Bangerang people and we are at the Bangerang Cultural Center which was set up as an education tool to educate not only Indigenous people, but the wider community.’

There are Three Traditional Tribal Groups of the Willandra Lakes region–Barkandji, Mutthi Mutthi and Ngiyampaa. Each group has unique characteristics regarding language, culture and customs.  These three Traditional Tribal Groups all hold inherent creation stories which explain the origins and land formations that are today known collectively as the Willandra Lakes. 

Ḻiya-Dhälinymirr Community 

Community

Welcome to the Ḻiya-Dhälinymirr community! A clan of Yolngu Nation. We invite you to watch the Welcome and read about the Storytellers and community. Find out how various trees are used for making tools, weapons and other resources and experience the magic of the Rawu song and film! On your journey reflect on these questions:1. What tree is used to create the rope? What other community on the Discovery Maps shares their rope making practices? How are these different? How are they the same?2. The Rawu Dreaming Song serves as a guide or set of instructions for making rope, harpoons and other tools. Reflect on the evolution of such tools and investigate the shift from natural materials to synthetics and plastics. 3. In our modern Western context, what are the benefits of synthetics/plastics and what are the issues? 4. How are plastics being recycled in our local community? 

Rawu Song

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Ḻiya-Dhälinymirr Community and Storytellers

We are a clan of Yolngu Nation. Yolngu are divided into separate clan groups. Families within these clan groups also belong to their own homelands. From Mitchell Ranges to Buckingham Bay, Baḏaypaḏay, Gupawupa and Dhamiyaka.  This knowledge belongs to and is shared by Näkarrma Mark Guyula (Senior Custodian), Peter Murrkiltja Guyula (Senior Songman/Custodian) and supported by Davis Muwarra Marrawuŋgu of the Gutharra (Granddaughter) clan.