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ABORIGINAL ARTEFACTS.( SIENNA WOODS & HAYNES)

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2016

Overview

Four plastic bags of stone artefacts made and used by the native Whadjuk people who lived in the Sienna Woods area prior to its development.

Historical information

A collection of stone tools and artefacts recovered from the Sienna Woods area before the developers moved in. Believed to be made by the Whadjuk people who occupied this location.
Permission was granted for the collection to be housed at the museum by members of the Native Title Claimant Group that included Harry Nannup, Eric Jacobs, Ruth Hayden (of Brookdale) and Myrtle Yarran. The artefacts were salvaged under a Section 18 Permit as part of the Wungong Urban Water Master Plan.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2016.34

Themes

First Peoples

People

Social History

Material

Stone

Contextual information

This is part of a collection of items that represent the pre-1829 activities and used of the local area by the traditional owners the, Noongar Whadjuk. The collection includes the report and recovered material of an archaeological excavation, done in consultation with Noongar Elders, conducted before a major residential development in the 2010s.

Keywords

Promo stone artefacts from sienna woods

Archaeology Report

Year

2016

Statement of significance

This is part of the broader evidence of continuous occupation and industries of the Noongar dialect groups who lived along the Swan Coastal Plain. Archaeological evidence indicates over 30,000 years of Noongar occupation and industries in the COA region. Part of the archaeological surveys conducted from 2015 to the present on the land being developed for sale, this survey is one of a series of investigations of material related to the larger development. The survey is located within the Haynes/Sienna Wood residential development in the City of Armadale (COA), by Stockland.

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Scientific or research significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Rare or representative

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Wednesday, 27 May, 2026

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