Right: The artist Leanne Anderson describes the artwork motifs shown on the edges of this view as depicting travelling to different campsites up and down the coast.”
What's This Picture?
The image here is an illustration presenting extracts from a series of historical photographs taken by Thomas Dick in the 1920s around Port Macquarie.
It helps us imagine how Aboriginal people once used this low-lying lagoon area, and other natural places near here.
While the seashore and river estuaries were an abundant food source for Aboriginal people, it was the coastal forests that provided them with the vegetables, medicines and fibres they needed, as well as being an important hunting ground.
