Traditional usage list

| Home page | | Material Culture page | Categories of Plant Usage in Traditional Material Culture | Sandpaper || String || Dye || Wax || Wood || Firestick || Fish poison | Sandpaper Leaves used for Sandpaper sandpaper fig tree, Ficus opposita and F. scobina String [See the String page] Vine used for string cluster fig, Ficus racemosa Stem bark used for string northern kurrajong, Brachychiton diversifolius monkeynut tree, Sterculia quadrifida Root bark used for string Leaf fibre used for string pandanus, Pandanus spiralis Dye Root tuber is a source of dye dye tree, Morinda citrifolia Leaf is a source of dye Stem bark is a source of dye Wax [See the Wax page] Root is a source of wax turpentine tree, Canarium australianum fine-leafed beefwood or forest wax tree, Grevillea coriacea Cooktown ironwood, Erythrophleum chlorostachys Stalk is a source of wax grasstree, Xanthorrhoea johnsonii Leaf is a source of wax wild guava, Gardenia megasperma Water containers Wood for implements Light wood Dense or heavy wood Lancewood fine-leafed lancewood, Acacia sherleyi lancewood, undetermined Acacia sp. [called ug irrjir in Uw Olkola and yuku pangki in Pakanh] lancewood, undetermined Acacia sp. [called ug enganhdhan in Uw Olkola] Firestick [See the Firestick page] Trees which have wood used for firestick spear rod tree, Cordia myxa sandpaper fig tree, Ficus opposita and F. scobina cottonwood, Hibiscus tiliaceus firestick tree, Premna acuminata grasstree, Xanthorrhoea johnsonii Firewood Wood which burns hot Wood which burns cold Fish poison [See the Fish poison page] Leaves used for fish poison fish poison tree, Acacia ditricha soapy wattle or fish poison wattle, Acacia holosericea soapy tree, Alphitonia sp.? [called ug ibhag in Uw Olkola and uk iphagh in Uw Oykangand] freshwater mangrove, Barringtonia acutangula coolibah, Eucalyptus microtheca cabbage gum, Eucalyptus confertiflora ghost gum, Eucalyptus papuana bloodwood, Eucalyptus sp. [called ug arrgar in Uw Olkola, uk arrkar in Uw Oykangand and yuku waaki in Pakanh] long-fruited bloodwood, Eucalyptus polycarpa silver-leaved paperbark, Melaleuca argentea Bark (from stem and root) used for fish poison freshwater mangrove, Barringtonia acutangula coolibah, Eucalyptus microtheca white cockatoo tree or pussycat tail [called ug ojor in Uw Olkola, uk orrchor in Uw Oykangand and ug aybam in Uw Ilbmbanhdhiy] "Matchwood" Paints Ornamentatione-mail: Philip Hamilton.