DIGGING STICK

Widespread throughout Australia, used and prized by women, these were carefully fashioned hardwood poles.  One end was very sharp, the other much broader and flatter.  With digging sticks women collected edible tubers and roots, dug out small marsupials and reptiles, opened up termite mounds or stripped bark from trees and dug earth ovens.  The Ngemba women also speared fish with their digging stick at the fisheries.

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