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Bush Medicine/Smoking Ceremony, 2023

$1,090.00

  • 90cm x 90cm
  • 2023
  • Natural Ochres On Canvas
  • Catalog No: 1106-233/23

These are the bush plants that we use for cold sick, sores and for welcoming people in our Gija land.
We collect them out in bush THALNGARR- (Snappy Gum), BILIRN- (River Gum), MABOORA- (Conkerberry) and than cut them to put it in a drum with water and boil it on a fire or stove. Than we wait till it cool down a bit, we than Seperate the juice from the leaves, we pour the juice in a tub and we bath in it. The bush medicine help brings out all the cold sick and it cleans out the sores and make it dry.
THALNGARR- (Snappy Gum)
BILIRN- (River Gum)
MABOORA- (Conkerberry)
We use THALNGARR (Snappy Gum) and BILIRN (River Gum) to Welcome people in our Gija Country for our smoking ceremony. We cut the THALNGARR (Snappy Gum) and BILIRN (River Gum) than put them in a pile with some dry leaves and burn them to make smoke, we tell all the people to walk around the smoke so we can rub them from their head to toe.

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