"totemic" - 1 õppematerjal

Aborigeenid (Inglise keeles)

Land was spiritual, but also an economic resource as it provided the people with food, sources of wood, fibre and glue for making spears, utensils and other implements. However the people respected these aspects of their land and were environmentalists in the sense of 'taking care' of the land through their practices of performing increase ceremonies, 8 singing 'Song lines' and relationships with flora and fauna through a system of totemic relationships. Aboriginal people were social beings as they lived and gathered together in family groups . Their camps were comprised of a number of gunyas (bark huts), but the people also lived in caves or in the open air. Some camps were comprised of as few as 6 to 10 people while in others there were up to 400 people. No doubt the availability of food was a factor in the size of a camp. The Elder or Elders