They paint their faces with different colours, each one resembles somthing. The black paint usually comes from charcoal and the white paint comes from clay. Yellow and red paints come from ground rock. The white paint stands for spirituality which gives you life. The yellow is supposed to be the river of life and it blesses you and makes you untired.
Different tribes have different paintings and dances.
Some of the dances represent how natural landmarks were made like the sun etc. Food Aborigines eat berries such as quandong berries with a hard stained middle that looks like passion fruit. Naipans and Snotty gabble are also popular berries. Emus, snakes , echidnas and kangaroos are also eaten. Aborigines still eat these meats but they don't prepare them like they used to.