Tools 

Explore the traditional tools, hunting equipment, and cultural items used by Aboriginal people across Kabi Kabi Country. This section of Djaa Online introduces students to artefacts such as boomerangs, grinding stones, spears, clap sticks, and other important cultural tools — sharing how they were made, used, traded, and respected within everyday life and cultural practice.

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Returning Boomerang

Returning Boomerang (Kabi Kabi style) is a traditional tool crafted by the Kabi Kabi people, designed to return to its thrower after being cast. Skillfully shaped, this boomerang is used both in hunting and as a symbol of connection to the land. In Djaa, it serves as an essential item for Buangun, allowing him to strike from a distance and collect valuable resources as it returns to his hand.

Uses 

  • Hunt game! protect your self from danger!

  • Collect different ones!

  • Use to collect high items!

Grinding stone

Languge Name: Ga'nai (n) [ka'nai, ka'nee]

A grinding stone, used by the Kabi Kabi people, is an essential tool in traditional medicine-making. Made from rough stone, it’s used to crush, grind, and mix herbs and plants into remedies. This process is deeply connected to the land, and the ancestors. some can be 1000s of years old. 

Uses

  • Used to make medicine 

  • Used to make bread 

  • Collect to trade 

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Journey alongside Buangan and his family as he learns from Elders, develops new skills, explores Country, attends the Bunya Dreaming gathering, creates tools and weapons, makes fire, and grows in knowledge, responsibility, and connection to community. Through Djaa, students experience culture through story, exploration, and learning — seeing the world through the eyes of a young Kabi Kabi boy as he finds his place within his community.

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