Boab Tree.
The squat, bulbous boab has provided water, food, medicine, shelter, even burial crypts for Aboriginals, some of who regard the tree as sacred. The boab in Western Australia is known as the Derby prison tree-erroneously, according to |University of Tasmania historian Kristyn Harman and University of Adelaide architectural anthropologist Elizabeth Grant. Though the tree was reputed to be a holding cell or staging area for Aboriginal prisoners en route to Derby. Harman and Grant debunk the story as "a deliberate move to present it as a dark tourism site displaying colonial triumphs over Aboriginal people."