North Coastal: Environment

  • Bushland
  • Banksia cone for fuel
  • Banksia for making Bool ('Bull') to drink
  • Bush Food
  • Bush foods
  • Bush nuts (Macadamia)
  • Cabbage tree palms for making hats
  • Coastline...
  • Fish were a staple of both European and Koori diets in the 1920s
  • Fishing from canoes, Manly Museum and Gallery
  • Geebung
  • Grevillea for nectar
  • Grevillea for nectar
  • Gymea Lily
  • Gymea Lily for nectar
  • Hunting and Fishing, 1829, by William Govett, courtesy Manly Museum and Gallery
  • Lane Cove River bushland
  • Lilli pilli fruit to make jelly
  • Lomandra, wild rice
  • Mangrove fruit
  • Mangroves Lane Cove
  • Oysters, Burns Bay
  • Pandanus Palms
  • Paperbark, put to many uses by Sydney Koories
  • Paperbark, useful for many purposes from roofing material to bandages
  • Peeled Pig face fruit
  • Pig face fruit
  • Pig face fruit on plant
  • Port Jackson figs
  • Port Jackson figs
  • Port Jackson figs
  • Red Spider Grevillea
  • Sarsparilla, for coughs
  • Seafood supplemented Koori diets well into the twentieth century
  • Shell midden, Marramarra Creek
  • Tea Tree for antiseptic
  • Warrigal spinach
  • Wattle seeds
  • White ochre used for mourning ceremonies
  • Wild grape
  • Wild raspberries
  • Wild rice
  • Wombat berry