TAGGED: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures
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Djiwul (Jack) Wunuwun cuts bark from a tree in the bush, with an axe. The narrator (David Gulpilil) says the best time to get the bark is in the wet season.

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Jack Wunuwun grinds the red ochre and applies the paint to his bark painting about the Morning Star. Summary by Liz McNiven.

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Rolf de Heer oversees the construction of swamp canoes that will be used in the film Ten Canoes (2006). Summary by Romaine Moreton.

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Against a backdrop of images of the Ramingining community, director Rolf de Heer talks about the unexpected problems in casting Ten Canoes (2006).

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Sammy Butcher talks about his experience as a musician with the Warumpi Band, and how the Warumpi Band was a people’s band, their songs having meaning that would have a positive impact upon their a

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A teenage band put together by Sammy Butcher performs for an audience.

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Sammy Butcher talks about life after the Warumpi Band, settling down in Papunya and starting a recording studio where he teaches the young ones how to play music and perform.

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Zita is sitting on a stool feeding a poddy calf. In voice-over Aggie Abbott says most children who were taken away never returned to their country.

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Aggie Abbott recalls that when her family heard that her sister had a little white child, they travelled by camel from Ross River to see her.