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The older women tell us the story of the smoking ritual, and how it is no longer practiced as much as it should be. Footage of women preparing the site for smoking, and of a baby being smoked.
Curator’s notes
The older women attribute the ill health of mothers and babies to the discontinuation of the smoking ritual. The smoking ritual is used to make the baby and the mother strong, and it is the absence of this ritual that they believe sees the increase of European disease in their community.
