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Cool Drink and Culture (2006)

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clip Witchety grubs are healthy education content clip 3

This clip chosen to be G

Clip description

Witchety grubs being prepared for consumption. A group of young women are gathered at the waterhole and are preparing bush tucker to feed the young kids to make them strong.

Curator’s notes

The young women speak about getting bush tucker, water and bush medicine to make the children healthy. They talk about how the old people once showed them, and they now show the children. There is a definite message here that for the children to be healthy, more of the old ways must be kept in practice.