Description A group of young girls go and dig up a plant called lywemp-lywemp. They mix it with water and put it in their hair to make it shiny and long.
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Ngardan, the earth mound created by the black soil termite namulu is great medicine. Eaten straight it helps with arthritis and all your joints. Lying down on a heated mound earth bed covered with straw and a little water to create steam is a wonderful healer for your whole body. …
This movie is about the bush medicines the kids learnt about that grow in their country. They learnt what they were good for and how to say them in language.
A story about a group of girls playing basketball. One girl gets injured and her friends take her to see an old woman who knows bush medicine. She gets better and they recommence their basketball game.
A man goes hunting for kangaroo, he shoots the kangaroo and then cooks it. He takes the blood from the kangaroo to be used as a bush medicine. Dogs gets the meat at the end.
Created for Yoana Mynah's Bush Botanic's exhibition 2018.
We go out to Dianne Stoke's traditional land of Pawu Springs, where we're shown how to create 'Yakkula' a traditional skin lotion.
A Traditional elder gives a tour out bush in the Chuulangun Homelands (Cape York) looking for native plants ,speaking in both English and language, he talks about the Tjulu plant.
Barkly Yarning was a Festivals Australia project for the 2012 Desert Harmony Festival. Produced by Barkly Regional Arts Project Director - Ktima Heathcote
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