The rainforest of the Australian wet tropics -- Rainforest biodiversity -- People of the rainforest -- Hunting and gathering -- Born in the bush -- In harmony with nature -- Jumbun today -- Children of the rainforest -- Mud baths -- Belonging -- Story places -- Listening in the rain -- Margoi, the python -- The slide -- Yumanyu -- flat rock -- Cyclone and floodwaters -- Creatures of the rainforest -- Keepers of the riverbanks -- Singing cicadas -- Fire -- Split rock -- how the people got fire -- Making fire -- The rainforest provides -- Finding Jumbun -- Rainforest fruits and seeds -- Black bean: from poisonous seeds ... -- ... to nutritious food -- Egg collecting -- Building a shelter -- Baskets ... -- ... and their uses -- Making string -- Making jewellery -- Tools and weapons -- Stone axes -- Hunting implements -- Resolving conflict -- The wangul (boomerang) -- Shield and sword -- Earth paints -- Winter falls -- Freshwater paradise -- A message from the rainforest people -- Guardians of wisdom
Summary
To produce this book, Breeden and Ashman lived with and listened to the Djirribal, Girrimay, Djiru and Gulgnay people of Jumbun. The result is this sensitive account of how traditional culture is inextricably linked to their modern-day lives