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Tennant Creek – Sacred Dances (1999)

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clip Bush coconut

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Clip description

A group of women are collecting bush coconuts, with a younger woman climbing the tree to collect them. She throws them down to the older women. A woman breaks one open whilst holding it in the palm of her hand, and shows us how to eat the bush coconut.

Curator’s notes

We learn the language for the bush coconut, which is 'kunta’, and the women show us how to collect and eat the kunta.