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Aboriginal people of N.S.W area ate meats, fish, shellfish and plant foods. The Kuringgai people were mainly vegetarian and the main source of meat in this area was fish and shell fish. The men used the three pronged spears to catch fish, while women used hooks and line from the shore or canoes.
Clans would send out a message to invite others if a whale was beached. Whale was important because it not only provided meat and bone but more importantly fat/oil which they did not have a lot of in their diet.
Men also hunted land animals using spears, boomerangs, nets and throwing sticks. Often they would burn the land chasing animals into their traps.
Aboriginal women collected vegetable and plant foods as well as shellfish. They used digging sticks in the collection of underground food such as yams. They collected and carried plant foods in wooden coolamons. Food was cooked on open fires
Fresh/saltwater foods :
* Shellfish included mussels, limpets, pippies, oysters,
turban shells, crayfish or lobsters and crabs.
* Fish included bream, flathead, octopus, squid, snapper,
leather jackets, whales, penguins and seals.
Land Animals :
* Animals included kangaroo, wallabies, emu, echidna, possum,
sugar glider, bats and wombats.
* Reptiles included lizards and snakes.
* Bugs & insects included sugar ants.
* Birds included pigeons, albatross, cockatoos and parrots.
Plants :
Leaves, flowers, roots and fruit included yams, gymea lilly, sasparilla, tea tree, grass tree, burrawang, sydney golden leaf wattle, banksia, long leaf wattle, hop bush, native raspberry and lillypilly.
A wallaby feeds just below the
lookout.
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