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Photo of the Day: Gaiarbau - Jinibara people
By Editorial Staff
Dec 4, 2009 - 12:02:21 AM

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• Gaiarbau (above), tribal elder and songman of the Jinibara people seen here in full ceremonial markings wearing a cockatoo feather and white ochre fronds (circa 1880s - 1957)
  
  The Jinibara people are from the D'Aguilar Range and surrounding areas.
  
  The word 'Jini' means 'place of lawyer cane'. Aboriginal people used the stem of lawyer cane as a handle for knives and axes. The stem of the vine was split into two and folded over the sharpened axe head. Grasstree resin and kangaroo tail sinew were used to bind the handle and axe head.
  
  Food is also found in the rainforest. Women and young people gathered plant foods such as berries and quandong fruit. Before collecting berries Aboriginal People would rub a stick under the shrub. this would disturb snakes waiting to ambush birds that might come to forage on the fallen berries.

More Photographs may be found at:

• King and Crimson Parrots Lamington National Park
• No Place Like Home - Queensland
• The Adventures of Captain Sandy Stewart

Posted by R.P. BenDedek  Email: rpbendedek@hotmail.com

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