Aboriginal Foods - Bomaderry Creek Track, NSW, Australia
S 34° 50.699 E 150° 35.377
56H E 279611 N 6141497
This sign in the Bomaderry Creek Regional Park, beside the creek track, gives information on the local Flora and Fauna used by the Aborigines.
Waymark Code: WMY8E6
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 05/09/2018
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The sign about Aboriginal Foods, beside the Bomaderry Creek Track has the following information:
ABORIGINAL FOODS
A large number of plants and animals were used by Aboriginies (sic) for food and medicine. Examples are figs, native cherry, bracken fern, banksia, orchids, apple berry, mat bush and burrawang.
The sandpaper fig's leaves were used for smoothing wooden tools, the sap was applied to cuts and skin infections.
Ficus coronata, leaves and fig
Lomandra. The white base of the leaf was chewed and the tough leaves used for weaving baskets.
Freshwater mussels were found in the sand then roasted in their shells.
* This white, rectangular, metal sign is concreted into a recess of a sandstone rock bench/ledge beside Bomaderry Creek, under a rocky overhang. It has become a bit weathered, and hard to read. It is quite close to the breached weir. *
Visited: 1504-5, Sunday 1 October, 2017