dilly bag

Another use for the dilly bag (also named Mukurtu) was as a holder for personal or tribal artifacts.

He is widely respected in the Aboriginal community for his skill in making traditional artefacts such as shields, swords,dilly bags and boomerangs.

In the north, the more tightly woven styles were made, whereas in the south, a looser stringed bag, popularly known as a dilly bag was made.

Each day the women of the horde went into successive parts of one countryside, with wooden digging sticks and plaited dilly bags or wooden coolamons.

A dillybag or dilly bag is a traditional Australian Aboriginal bag, generally woven from the fibres of plant species of the Pandanus genus.

The "Dilly bag" term is also used to describe bags used by non-aboriginal Australians, for example a smaller food bag carried by swagmen along with their swags.

Pandanus trees provide materials for housing; clothing and textiles including the manufacture of dilly bags (carrying bags), fine mats or 'ie toga; food, medication, decorations, fishing, and religious uses.

The collection also includes a map showing the tribal areas, an extensive assortment of rubbing stones, boomerangs, stone axes, grinding and milling stones and other tools, predominantly from two major donors - the Keenan and the Mayfield families as well as dilly bags and other handcrafted items.