Editing Smoke signal (section)

===Aboriginal Australians===
[[Aboriginal Australians]] throughout Australia have used smoke signals for various purposes—<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=The Red Chief|last=Idriess|first=Ion L|publisher=ettimprint|year=1953}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Over the Range|last=Idriess|first=Ion L|publisher=ettimprint|year=1937}}</ref> sometimes to notify others of their presence, particularly when entering lands which were not their own.<ref name=":0">Myers, 1986: 100</ref> Sometimes used to describe visiting Whites, smoke signals were the fastest way to send messages.<ref name=":3" /> Smoke signals were sometimes used to notify of incursions by hostile tribes, or to arrange meetings between hunting parties of the same tribe. This signal could be from a fixed lookout on a ridge or from a mobile band of tribesman.<ref name=":2" /> "Putting up a smoke" often promoted nearby individuals or groups to reply with their own signals.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|title=Report on Patrol to Lake Mackay Area June/July 1957|url=http://www.cifhs.com/|publisher=National Archives of Australia|access-date=2014-01-31}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> Different colours of smoke (black, white or blue, depending on whether the material being burnt was wet grass, dry grass, reeds or other materials) were used to convert information, as was the smoke's shape (a column, ball or ring), allowing a messaging system sophisticated enough to include the names of individual tribesmen.<ref name=":2" /> Like other means of communication, signals could be misinterpreted. In one recorded instance, a smoke signal reply translated as "we are coming" was misinterpreted as joining a war party for protection of the tribe, when it was actually to indicate hunting parties coming together after a successful hunt.<ref name=":2" />