Traditional Desert Livelihoods
Aboriginal people have inhabited Australia's deserts since they first began to belong to Australia. There is no specific date for this piece of information, as it was a very long time ago.
Fire and water are or were very important to Aboriginal people living in Australia's deserts because they were things that helped the Aboriginals survive in the desert. Fire was probably needed the most to cook their food. They needed fire to cook the animals or creatures that they found, so they could eat it to stay alive. Water of course, they needed desperately, as everyone knows they need water to survive. When you think why they needed water and fire so much, you may think 'why fire?', but fire helped them in various ways, one including their need to cook therir food. e.g. creatures/animals.
There were no specific languages spoken by the Aboriginal people in Australian deserts, as they all had their own little way of speaking in different parts of Australia and the deserts. As an example there are about 1700 ways of saying the word 'Aboriginal' across Australia. Some of these are: Koori, Murri, Arelhe, Anangu and Yapa. This shows us there are many different ways of speaking in the deserts by the Aboriginal people.
Aboriginals have their very own tribes, there are many of them all over Australia. Some of the tribes in the Australian deserts are: The Antakarinya tribe, which can be found around the desert of South Australia, The Jangkundjara tribe, which can also be found in the desert of South Australia and The Pintupi tribe, which can be found in the desert of the Northern Territory. There are many more Aboriginal tribes in Australia and a few more in the deserts. Aboriginals like to have groups in their lands or areas, which provide them with different living habits, different languages and different habitats.
Aboriginals who lived in the desert sorced their food in all different ways. Some of the ways are from killing the animals, growing plants, finding food from grubs and finding sweet foods. The types animals were carpet snakes, red kangaroos, possums, short-beaked echindnas, emus and galahs. The type of food from plants they ate were dead finish seeds, pigweed seeds, bush tomatoes, mistletoe berries, bush banana fruit, bush banana leaves, bush banana flowers, bush banana roots, pencil yam, wild onions, bush potato and bush coconut. The type of grubs they ate were witchetty grubs, river red gum grub, cicadas and tar vine caterpillars. The types of sweet food Aboriginals ate were native bee honey, honeyant, bloodwood
flower nectar, mulga tree gum and river red gum leaf scale.
Fire and water are or were very important to Aboriginal people living in Australia's deserts because they were things that helped the Aboriginals survive in the desert. Fire was probably needed the most to cook their food. They needed fire to cook the animals or creatures that they found, so they could eat it to stay alive. Water of course, they needed desperately, as everyone knows they need water to survive. When you think why they needed water and fire so much, you may think 'why fire?', but fire helped them in various ways, one including their need to cook therir food. e.g. creatures/animals.
There were no specific languages spoken by the Aboriginal people in Australian deserts, as they all had their own little way of speaking in different parts of Australia and the deserts. As an example there are about 1700 ways of saying the word 'Aboriginal' across Australia. Some of these are: Koori, Murri, Arelhe, Anangu and Yapa. This shows us there are many different ways of speaking in the deserts by the Aboriginal people.
Aboriginals have their very own tribes, there are many of them all over Australia. Some of the tribes in the Australian deserts are: The Antakarinya tribe, which can be found around the desert of South Australia, The Jangkundjara tribe, which can also be found in the desert of South Australia and The Pintupi tribe, which can be found in the desert of the Northern Territory. There are many more Aboriginal tribes in Australia and a few more in the deserts. Aboriginals like to have groups in their lands or areas, which provide them with different living habits, different languages and different habitats.
Aboriginals who lived in the desert sorced their food in all different ways. Some of the ways are from killing the animals, growing plants, finding food from grubs and finding sweet foods. The types animals were carpet snakes, red kangaroos, possums, short-beaked echindnas, emus and galahs. The type of food from plants they ate were dead finish seeds, pigweed seeds, bush tomatoes, mistletoe berries, bush banana fruit, bush banana leaves, bush banana flowers, bush banana roots, pencil yam, wild onions, bush potato and bush coconut. The type of grubs they ate were witchetty grubs, river red gum grub, cicadas and tar vine caterpillars. The types of sweet food Aboriginals ate were native bee honey, honeyant, bloodwood
flower nectar, mulga tree gum and river red gum leaf scale.
Aboriginal Painting
This is a very colourful Aboriginal painting. These type of paintings (Aboriginal paintings) can have many different pictures and symbols on them. Most Aboriginal paintings explain the life of where Aboriginals live. This particular painting shows the symbols and patterns of those who live in the Australian deserts. I believe this painting depicts aboriginal life in Australian deserts because it shows the types of animals or creatures that may be found in the deserts. The patterns of what they find and have to live with are also shown on this particular painting. The colours used in the Aboriginal painting that I have chosen out are slightly different to the avereage Aboriginal paintings. Aboriginals normally use browns, blacks, greys, yellows and whites in their paintings, which is why I found this one interesting because they used a wide variety of other colours such as pink, orange, blue and purple. Aboriginal paintings have all different types of things on them, they are very interesting and good to learn about.