Material culture list

| Home page | From this page you can find out more about the traditional material culture and industry of the Uw Oykangand, Uw Olkola and Pakanh peoples of central Cape York Peninsula. You can find information on the spears, tools, dillybags and all the rest of the material culture of these people, find out how they are made and what they are used for. Table of Contents | Humpies and other constructions | | Dilly bags, coolamons and other containers | | Ornaments and paints | | Spears, woomeras and other weapons | | Tools, including yamsticks and wax | Humpies and other constructions [Return to the top of this page] Constructions Bark humpy Bed table Bough shade Brush fish trap Bush table Fly humpy Long humpy Mosquito shelter Stone fish trap Wind break Dillybags, coolamons and other containers [Return to the top of this page] Dilly bags Dilly bag types Fine weave bag Loop-weave bag Net bag Dilly bag parts Ass Handle Mouth Rim Other woven objects Fishing net Yam strainer Dishes Bark dish Billycan Coolamon Panican Ornaments and paints [Return to the top of this page] Ornaments Ear ornament Forehead band shell Necklace Nose peg Pandanus armband Pandanus neckband Pubic tassle Shell pendant Giddee giddee bead pendant Paints Black paint Red paint White paint Spears, woomeras and other weapons [Return to the top of this page] Spears Barramundi spear Bottle spear Bullet spear Bunched porcupine spear Bunched stingray spear Fishing hand point Four-pronged man spear Gravel spear Knife spear Porcupine spear Single pointed stringray spear Stingray spear Wallaby spear Wire spear Woomeras Woomera Woomera parts Woomera hook Woomera shell Other weapons Axe Boomerang Digging stick Fighting stick Shark tooth fighting knife Shield Sword club Tommyhawk Tools, including yamsticks and wax [Return to the top of this page] Yamsticks Long yamstick Short yamstick Yamstick Other tools Awl Axe Bundle Carrying collar Firestick Fishing line Fishnet Food pounder Grinding stick Grindstone Hand adze Hand axe Heel drill Hoop net Pocket net Pounding board Roll of string Smoothing board Resin pallet Stone hammer Stone knife Stone scraper String Wallaby jawbone engraver Wallaby tail sinew twine Wooden axe Wax Forest wax Grasstree wax Ironwood wax Sugarbag wax Pipe Message stick