Stone spear-tips.
Source: Museum Victoria
Bunjilaka recently hosted a stone-tool-making workshop, in which Aboriginal community participants created spear-tips and other objects using traditional techniques.
The ability to work stone into useful tools through pressure and percussion flaking has been a key factor in the survival of Aboriginal people for thousands of generations.
Simon Greenwood from Museum Victoria’s Indigenous Cultures department and John Duggan from Bunjilaka presented the workshop in Bunjilaka’s Milarri Garden. Participants were shown methods of shaping stone into spear-tips and other traditionally used objects, while traditional methods of binding were also demonstrated.
Held over a weekend, this interactive workshop provided an important moment for young and old to come together to share experiences and reinstate aspects of traditional knowledge and practice.