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'This dreaming tells about a special tree that everyone uses for medicine. It helps cure aches and pains in the joints, headache and snake bites. The vine is wrapped around the arm on leg and is left till the pain is taken away. Ngalyipi is the bush banana Yuparli plant, it winds around trees from ground upwards. The Ngalyipi vines has round leaves, it does not have any edible fruits, it is poisonous. The Snake Vine Ngalyipi is used for everything.' (Source: Jaktman website)
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'Dreamings' and Dreaming Narratives : What's the Relationship?
2014
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 6 February 2014;'... To imagine what “Australia” was like B.C. (“Before Cook”, or before colonisation), one needs to envision the entire landmass of this island/continent and most of its surrounding islands and waters as crisscrossed by “Dreamings” (in popular parlance sometimes referred to as “Songlines”). ...'
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'Dreamings' and Dreaming Narratives : What's the Relationship?
2014
single work
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 6 February 2014;'... To imagine what “Australia” was like B.C. (“Before Cook”, or before colonisation), one needs to envision the entire landmass of this island/continent and most of its surrounding islands and waters as crisscrossed by “Dreamings” (in popular parlance sometimes referred to as “Songlines”). ...'
