Indigenous Round Jersey: Sandstone Country

Celebrating culture: this Friday night we'll be wearing our 2025 Indigenous jersey.

Designed by Chantelle Nettleton, a Gamilaroi artist from Collarenebri, who now calls the Northern Beaches home, the jersey is a powerful tribute to the rich Indigenous heritage of the Northern Beaches.

The design honours the land, its enduring strength, and the Aboriginal people who have lived here for thousands of years and continue to do so today.

Our Indigenous Round jersey designed by Chantelle Nettleton
This artwork captures the beauty of the land the Sea Eagles proudly represent. It showcases the land that holds stories written in the sandstone, grown into the coastline, and embedded deep in the ground.

Design Symbolism

• Faint Dots: Represent the many Indigenous people from different mobs who now call the Northern Beaches home.
• Engravings: Inspired by traditional engravings found in the sandstone of the Northern Beaches.
• Grinding Grooves: These marks come from the sharpening of axes and similar tools. A process requiring many hours of work. The surrounding gold pattern symbolises the sandstone landscape
• Meeting Place: Elders (Gold U-shapes) teaching young people (white U-shapes) This represents a key aspect of Aboriginal culture (the passing down knowledge through generations). The gold pattern around this area also symbolises sandstone country
• Hand Stencils: A traditional art form created by spraying an ochre mixture over a hand pressed against a surface, leaving behind a lasting stencil.
• Clans and Shell Middens: The Gayamaygal and Garigal clans are two known groups from the Northern Beaches. The dots within the headland shapes represent shell middens, ancient mounds formed over centuries from shellfish remains, animal bones, clay, charcoal, and stone tools.

The Sea Eagles will wear our Indigenous Jersey when we take on the Canberra Raiders on Round 23 at GIO Stadium in Canberra.