PORT ADELAIDE will wear a specially designed guernsey for the SANFL’s Indigenous Round next weekend.

The Round has been put in place to recognise and celebrate the significant contribution of Indigenous people to the SANFL competition and football in South Australia.

The Magpies will wear a modified version of the guernsey the Power wore in its Round 12 and 13 AFL matches featuring a design by ruckman Paddy Ryder and his uncle Kevin Bynder.

The guernsey features representations of the waters that surround the Port Adelaide area including the beaches and the Port River.

A big camping place in the middle of the guernsey represents the Port Adelaide Football Club with the pathways connecting and leading the players there.

The top section of the guernsey features circles, representing the football community of Port Adelaide and those past and present who have helped build the club.

A section at the bottom of the guernsey represents the waters of Port Adelaide and the four camping places in between the large circle and the community represent the local Aboriginal people of that area camping on the banks of the ocean as they have done for thousands of years.

The Magpies will wear the guernsey in the SANFL Showdown against Adelaide at Kadina Oval on Sunday, 15 July.

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