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ARTIFACTS

The artifacts we present here belong to objects of everyday and ritual use in Aboriginal culture. These include both the well-known boomerangs and vessels such as coolamon or Tjurunga.

Yandi vessels (also called Coolamon) are multi-functional shallow vessels or vessels traditionally used by Indigenous people to carry water, fruit, nuts and other types of bushes. They were also used to sift the chaff from the collected seeds. 

A Churinga or Tjurunga is an object of wood or stone made by various indigenous tribes of Central Australia, often elliptical in shape, bearing engraved designs and representing either the spiritual double of a living native or the embodiment of the spirit of the Totemic Ancestor.

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