Objects & Making
For us, creating and making things is just as important as stories, songs or dance. We create and handmake our own tools, artefacts, implements and objects. Here you can learn about these objects and our processes.
Artefacts, tools, implements, objects and how we make them.
Each tree had their own unique name and use.
Warren Foster from Wallaga Lake
Learn about our objects and how we make them
Bega Valley Historical Society collection
The Bega Valley Historical Society holds a small collection of nine locally crafted wooden hand tools known as the McPaul collection. These...
COLLECTIONS 
Chert and Faceting Stones
Patricia Ellis OAM talks about a type of stone called chert and how it was highly prized for tool making....
FILMS 
Scar Tree (Canoe Tree)
Patricia Ellis OAM talks about and shows us Scar Tree. Patricia teaches how the tree would have been cut to make the canoe....
FILMS 
The Culture Kit
Patricia Ellis OAM and Vivienne Mason share the contents of The Culture Kit....
FILMS 
Timber for Tool Making
Warren Foster talks about different trees, bark and their purposes. He shares what was crafted from different woods and how they were made....
FILMS Timber for Tool Making
Warren Foster talks about different trees, bark and their purposes. He shares what was crafted from different woods and how they were made.
