First Nation Habitats and Villages before and after slaughter & displacement

Malanda camp 1930's

Unknown 1894 (Aboriginal Technology: Housing, Alex Barlow, Macmillan Education Australia 1994)

A.A. White, Village is in a woodland not far from a mountainous rainforest area at Bellenden Ker in Yidinjdji country c 1904 (Lands and Peoples, The Grolier Society 1951)

Indigenous Shelter (University of Queensland)

water colour sketch of Aboriginal housing in Moreton Bay, probably on Stradbroke Island near Amity Point circa 1848 by Owen Stanley on HMS Rattlesnake

Tyrendarra - replica stone hut

Remains of an Aboriginal stone house in the Budj Bim Cultural landscape state's number one priority- World heritage listing

Hut decked with porcupine grass, Eastern Arrernte people, Arltunga district, Northern Territory, August 1920. Photo: Herbert Basedow. Reproduced from glass plate negative (National Museum of Australia)

Aboriginal House Frame without spinifex cladding

King Billy Jago (Cairns Historical Society)

A grass-clad dome from the coastal plains of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, designed for both wet-season use (Dec to Mar) and mosquito protection. The purpose of the small entrance is ease of sealing, once the occupants are inside. The photo was taken near Normanton in the period 1893-1910. (Photograph: Roth.)

Peron Francois 1807 - See description in text below gallery

[1 of 2] Image from 'Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia' by Charles Sturt, performed under the authority of Her Majesty’s government, during the years 1844, 5, and 6. (University of Adelaide)

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Sketch by explorer Wilhelm von Blandowski c 1849–1859 - Victoria or NSW

A cross-section of a Gunditjmara dwelling made with rocks, peat sods and reeds (ABC TV)

The papers of Brough Smythe 'Blacks, about 50 miles N.E. of Port Fairy, by what is termed the Scrubby Creek'. (State Library of Victoria)

Unknown source/location

Aboriginal camp Whim's creek (1929?)

Rainforest near Ingham, North Qld in 1905

A picture in Dr Memmot's book shows an Aboriginal man sitting in the doorway of a dome-shaped building

Native village detail of Village near Mt Shannon Watercolour sketch by J. H. Le Keux in Sturt 1849

Northern Territory - Paul Foelsche c1890's

Native village, Daintree River, Queensland

Aboriginal Camp on the Roper River, Northern Territory 'Paperbark Mia Mia'

First Nations people on the Tweed River, New South Wales, Australia, circa 1880 Getty

Photograph by R. Edwards in Isaacs [1980:107]

Outstation residence, Little Sandy Desert Photograph by P. Memmott, 1991

'Durra' -Woppaburra, Keppel Islands Queensland

Warburton Shelter (no other info available)

Pre colonial stone housing of the Gundidjmara people in Victoria. The first white settlers describe many such villages right across Australia! Some places consisting of 3000 or more people living sedentary lifestyles. Destroyed to keep the myth of empty land alive.

Pre colonial stone housing of the Gundidjmara people in Victoria. The first white settlers describe many such villages right across Australia! Some places consisting of 3000 or more people living sedentary lifestyles. Destroyed to keep the myth of empty land alive.

Aboriginal Stone Houses – Re-construction Project, 2013

Remains of an ancient Indigenous stone house at Lake Condah, part of the Budj Bim

These earth/clay kilns are not houses, but we imagine they could build houses in the same manner if they had reason to. Sketch by explorer Wilhelm von Blandowski c 1849–1859 - Murray Darling region.

Bush home in Busselton WA c.1930's

1908 Derdibin. 'Native camp' on on Derdebin Rock, near Northam WA

Adobe cottages at Yandeyarra, 1953, Photo by Bill Rourke, State Library of Western Australia, Collection of photographs used by W.H. Rourke in his book My Way

Aboriginal dome hut interior

Brenton Brown, Tim Lowery and Graeme Gardner have built this house in Tasmania aiming to get their building techniques as similar as possible to the old ways.(ABC News: Manika Champ)